get_val() {
  awk -F: -v name="#$1:" 'name{
    s="[ \t]*"
    sub("^"s, "", $2)
    sub(s"$", "", $2)
    print $2
    exit
  }'
}

       icon=$(get_val 'Icon'        < "$file")
    command=$(get_val 'Command'     < "$file")
   patterns=$(get_val 'Patterns'    < "$file")
directories=$(get_val 'Directories' < "$file")
audio_files=$(get_val 'Audio Files' < "$file")
image_files=$(get_val 'Image Files' < "$file")
other_files=$(get_val 'Other Files' < "$file")
 text_files=$(get_val 'Text Files'  < "$file")
video_files=$(get_val 'Video Files' < "$file")