i have a file like

<fruits>
<apple>redcolor<\apple>
<banana>yellow color and it is<\banana>
</fruits>

i need a text between apple and bannana ans so on....

how to read a text between a tags it multiple tags with differnt names

This should help you with a perl script:

XML::Simple - Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files) - search.cpan.org

awk -F'[<|>]' '/<apple>/{f=1}/<banana>/{f=""}f{print $3}' file

how can i find data if multiple tags present ( i mean dynamically)

Did you try my solution?

thanx for u r ans its working

suppose in my file i have multiple lines of differnt tags
then how to get data

nawk -F">" '{print $2}' file | nawk -F"<" '{print $1}' | grep . | grep your-pattern

with this method you are not hardcoding the tagnames, instead we are getting the string between > and the following <

hence the output of this command is
sa865h@sipc306> nawk -F">" '{print $2}' file | nawk -F"<" '{print $1}' | grep .
redcolor
yellow color and it is

"grep ." will simply remove the empy lines

Hope it is useful!!!!!!!!!!!!!