Copying a bunch of images defined in a CSS

Suppose we want to verify that all the images defined in a CSS file exist. We could also want to copy all of the images to a remote server dir. Using grep and awk, we can dump out a command line that will print an scp command that can then be piped to be executed.

grep -oi "../images/.[^)]*" /tmp/bla.css | awk '{print "scp " $0 " user@myhost.com:mydir"}' | sh

The -o flag in grep will output only the matching field. Since non-greedy expressions can only be represented with the [^)]* field (Python/Perl allow for the .* syntax to denote non-greedy), we express this grep command match everything up to the closing parenthesis.