Get all Steam Shortcut Exe paths using Bash.

get_all_steam_shortcut_exes.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Magic that represents 'exe' column begin and end
# Should always be Exe, but you could account for 'exe' with '6578650a'
magic_exe_camelcase="000145786500"  # 'Exe'
magic_exe_end="0001"  # end bytes before next column begins

# Paste in your Steam UserID
steam_userid=""
shortcuts_vdf="$HOME/.steam/root/userdata/${steam_userid}/config/shortcuts.vdf"

# Get all Steam Shortcut exe values (all values between the magic start and end bytes)
mapfile -t non_steam_exes < <(xxd -p -c 0 "$shortcuts_vdf" | grep -oP "${magic_exe_camelcase}\K.*?(?=0001)" )

# Convert from hex and print in loop with trimmed null byte
# exe will usually contain quotes even when added by Steam itself, though when you browse for exe with Steam, it will remove the quotes
# You could trim the start and end quotes with -     sed -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//'
# This will simply print them as-is, whether they have quotes or not
for i in "${non_steam_exes[@]}"; do
  steam_shortcut_exe="$( printf "%s\n" "$i" | xxd -r -p | tr -d '\0' )"
  
  echo "exe: ${steam_shortcut_exe}"
done