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02-23-2011
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get text between two tags in bash (awk)
Hi, I have a sample text file: Code:
<category name="Temp1">something1</category><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> </TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML> <category name="Temp2">something2 </category> New lines in the file may or may not occur. I would like to get only those parts of the file which are between the closest 'category' tags, so in this example: Code:
<category name="Temp1">something1</category><category name="Temp2">something2</category> I am trying to force awk to do that like that: Code:
awk -F "</?category.*>" '{ print $1 }' file.txtBut this command gives me only: Code:
</TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML> Could anyone point me how to write the command properly? Regards, Robert |
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#2
02-23-2011
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What do you have if you replace your $1 with $2 ? What do you get if you do this Code:
awk -F "</?category.*>" '{ print $2 }' file.txt? |
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03-04-2011
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Thanks for your answers. The last answer works of course with my file. My mistake that I have cut my sample too much :/ Imagine the other text file, slightly more complex: Code:
<category name="Temp1">something1<blah>some<test>aa</test></blah></category> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> </TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML> <category name="Temp2">something2<cat><test1>aa</test1>ww</cat></category> <category name="Temp1">something1<blah>some<test>aa</test></blah></category> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> </TD></TR></TABLE></BODY></HTML> <category name="Temp2">something2<cat><test1>aa</test1>ww</cat></category> I would like to get: (Toggle Plain Text) Code:
<category name="Temp1">something1<blah>some<test>aa</test></blah></category><category name="Temp2">something2<cat><test1>aa</test1>ww</cat></category><category name="Temp1">something1<blah>some<test>aa</test></blah></category><category name="Temp2">something2<cat><test1>aa</test1>ww</cat></category> from it. Could you tell me how to rewrite the command? |
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#5
03-04-2011
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Assuming your file does not contain
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"category" string (i use this tip to make sure that /category>.*<category matches only a .* that does NOT contain any other "category" string Code:
echo "$(tr -d '\n' <infile)" | sed 's/category/|/g;s:/|>[^|]*<|:/|><|:g;s/|/category/g' Last edited by ctsgnb; 03-04-2011 at 05:42 AM.. |
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