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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How To get the data from a tag in XML File Post 302264462 by Christoph Spohr on Thursday 4th of December 2008 03:48:33 AM
Old 12-04-2008
@samshaw:

Perhaps you should open your own thread?

For a start try this:

Code:
HOSTS=( $(sed -n 's/^<hostAddress>\([^<]*\).*/\1/p' xfile) )

It will write the results of the sed command into an array HOSTS.

Code:
echo ${HOSTS[1]} etc.

Will give you the values.

Sed is best learned by example. There are many pages with sed one liners.
This one here does the following:

-n only print if asked to print a line
's/ substitute
^<host every line starting with host
\([^<]*\) every character except a "<" and save what you have found in "\1"
.* the rest of the line
/\1/ substitute by what we have just save in \1
p' print this line.

The command does two tasks at a time: a) it finds all lines starting with
host..., b) it extracts the value between the tags.

HTH Chris
 

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