Quote:

Originally Posted by dunryc the data i need to grab is from between the new tags these are always on the source what ever the uses query.

There are two different cases to be considered: the starting and ending tags are on the same line or they are on different lines:

Code:

Example

<new>This is the text to catch</new>

<new>
This is some text
to catch</new>

sed -n 's/.*<new>\(.*\)<\/new>.*/\1/p'

blabla <new>text to match</new> blabla

sed -n '/<new>/,/<\/new>/ {
               s/.*<new>//
               s/<\/new>.*//
               /^$/d
               p
               }'

blabla <new>text
to
match</new> blabla