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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers search and grab data from a huge file Post 302075792 by cgunn23 on Tuesday 6th of June 2006 09:41:37 PM
Old 06-06-2006
Try this
Hi, I had the same issue with a large XML file being on one line. If you have Pearl on your server, you can use this command to add carriage returns after the closing xml tags so you can use the sed command.

cat $file | perl -p -i -e 's@><@>\n<@g' > `echo ${file} | cut -d. -f1`_broken.xml

Replace "$file" with your filename. This will create a copy of the file called filename_broken.xml with carriage returns.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

zgrep

ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME

       zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS

       zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename...

DESCRIPTION

       Zgrep  invokes  grep  on  compressed  or  gzipped  files.   These  grep  options  will  cause  zgrep  to  terminate  with  an  error  code:
       (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*).  All other options specified are passed directly to grep.  If no file is specified,  then  the
       standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep.  Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep.

       If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked.

EXIT CODE

       2 - An option that is not supported was specified.

AUTHOR

       Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca)

SEE ALSO

       grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1)

                                                                                                                                          ZGREP(1)
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