Question

I have a linux filter to extract all lines from an xcode project that contain localized strings and produce a sorted list of unique entries. The filter works fine and is shown below.

grep NSLocalized *.m | perl -pe 's/.*NSLocalizedString\((.+?)\,.*/$1/' | sort | uniq 

The result is a list of strings looking like this

@"string1"
@"string2"
etc

What I now need to do is identify the entries that do not exist within another textfile. So imagine I have a text file containing;

@"string1"
@"string3"
etc

The result would be @"string2" as it is not present in the file

For the sake of argument, the file is named list.txt

What do I need to add to my filter? I’m sure I can do this with grep but my brain has failed!

Answer 1

You can do:

grep NSLocalized *.m | 
perl -pe 's/.NSLocalizedString((.+?)\,./$1/' | 
grep -v -f list.txt | #ONLY ADDITION
sort |
uniq

You pipe the output of perl to grep which is using -v option to invert the search and -f option to get the search pattern from file