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#!/bin/bash

make a template of all the desktops and lets you view them in /tmp/desktops 
so none of your original desktops get overwritten 

builds an array for speeding up any scripts that search info from the desktop

now all your desktops will have a format and an organized  template
the first line is [Desktop Entry],Name,Icon,Categories,Exec,Comment

and thats what you will expect to see when you search the desktops for info  


#[Desktop Entry]
#Name=AbiWord
#Icon=/usr/share/icons/abiword_48.png
#Categories=Application;Office;WordProcessor;GNOME;GTK;X-Red-Hat-Base;
#Exec=abiword
#Comment=Compose, edit, and view documents





# make a template  of the desktops regenerate all desktops  to the new simple template
# removes poorly formatted desktops and creates a standard  which allows later  for easy reading of strings 
# into an array to speed up scripts since the newly generated desktops maintain a standard format
# less commands are needed to filter data for output this is where all the time is wasted 
# having to parse poorly formatted files from the start if you have organized files
# everything is fast and easy to  parse the code

:>arraytest.txt
mkdir -p /tmp/desktops

for DESKTOP_FILE in /usr/share/applications/* ; do
#for DESKTOP_FILE in /usr/share/applications/Editra.desktop ; do
    while read LINE ; do
      case $LINE in
         Name=*) NAME="${LINE[@]}"'|'   ;;
         Icon=*) ICON="${LINE[@]}"'|'   ;;
         #Terminal=*)
         #Type=*)
         Categories=*) CATS="${LINE[@]}"'|'   ;;
         Exec=*) EXEC="${LINE[@]}"'|'   ;;
         Comment=*) COMM="${LINE[@]}"'|'   ;;
      esac      
   done < $DESKTOP_FILE
   echo $NAME$ICON$CATS$EXEC
   # To test the extract function below, use the following line instead of above
   # fixes spaces in the string names by replacing them with a "+" making a correctly formatted array
    echo '[Desktop+Entry]|'$NAME$ICON$CATS$EXEC$COMM | tr ' ' '+'  >>arraytest.txt
    #uncomment if you want to generate all new desktops in /temp/desktops
    echo '[Desktop+Entry]|'$NAME$ICON$CATS$EXEC$COMM | tr ' ' '+' | tr '| ' ' ' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr '+' ' '>/tmp/desktops/`basename $DESKTOP_FILE`
done

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#!/bin/ash
A=$(($1/16))
HEX=0123456789ABCDEF
[ $A -gt 15 ] && dec2hex ${A} || printf ${HEX:$A:1}
printf ${HEX:$(($1%16)):1}

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#!/bin/ash

dec2hex(){
A=$(($1/16))
HEX=0123456789ABCDEF
[ $A -gt 15 ] && dec2hex ${A} || printf ${HEX:$A:1}
printf ${HEX:$(($1%16)):1}
}

dec2hex $1

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## With bash you can read the first line from a file speedily like this:

echo `<file`

## This you might think is the ash/dash solution:

cat file

## But I've actually found this to be the fastest for ash, bash and dash:

read -r input < file
echo $input

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## This is what you might be tempted to do:

fullpath="/some/path/to some file.txt"
path="`dirname "$fullpath"`"

## But this is portable although you'll need to check that it returns at least root:

fullpath="/some/path/to some file.txt"
path="${fullpath%/*}"
if [ -z "$path" ]; then path="/"; fi

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## You can get the first character using bash like this:

char="${path:0:1}"

## Otherwise you can use this (is there a better way?):

char="`echo $path | cut -c 1`"

## But if you know what you're looking for e.g. making sure that a string has an initial forward slash then you can do this:

case "$path" in
	/*) true ;;
	*) path="/$path" ;;
esac

## It's also useful if you're reading an rcfile and you want to filter out lines starting with a '#'.

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while IFS=  read line; do
  case "$line" in
    [^#]*|"") echo "$line";;
  esac
done <  /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit  

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sed '/^#.*/d'  /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

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[ "$var" = 'foo' -a "$var2" = 'bar' ] && echo blah

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case "$var1$var2" in
  foobar) echo blah ;;
esac

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if "$var" = 'foo'; then 

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if [ "$var" = 'foo']; then