Hi all,


I'm a noobie at shell scripting (and Linux) with no experience on programing.

I'm trying to create a script that will download my xml calendar from Google, process it in the [month, day<TAB>description] format and dump it into $HOME/.calendar/calendar.

Eg:
April 10 Event

I'm having a hard time using field delimiter on cut because the xml code changes depending on how much info I have on that calendar entry.

Here's an example of an entry in xml:

This the script I came up with:

#!/bin/bash


## Reads URL
_url=$1

## Gets Title
_get1=`wget $_url -q -O - | cut -d">" -f20 | grep title | sed 's/..title//g'`

## Gets time
_get2=`wget $_url -q -O - | cut -d">" -f3 | egrep '^W' | cut -d" " -f3,4 | sed 's/,//g'`


#Counter
_cnt=`echo "$_get1" | wc -l`
_cnt=$(( _cnt + 1 ))
#echo $_cnt
e="1"



while [ "$e" -lt "$_cnt" ] ; do
        _title=`echo "$_get1" | head -n "$e" | tail -n 1`
        _time=`echo "$_get2" | head -n "$e" | tail -n 1`
#       echo -e "$_time\t$_title"
#       echo "$e"
        e=$(( e + 1 ))
done

parsing xml using shell?? I suggest you use a programming language (eg Python/Perl) that supports XML parsers.

agreed, download python2.5 and use xml.etree.cElementTree library to parse your XML. infinitely easier.

So that's the problem. I didn't know that this was the proper way of doing it.

I guess it will take a while before I can finish the script them. I gotta learn shell before I can jump into another language.

Thanks for the reply!

Vic.

PS: You may not need to. Google's Calendars can be exported into the "iCal" format. Chances are, the program that looks at .calendar already honors this format.