I am very new to the UNIX shell scripting and would like to learn. However, I am currently stuck on how to process the below sample of code from an XML file using UNIX comands:
Goal: Write a script to look for a certain attribute by name (i.e. "Memory") and return its value (i.e. "512MB" in this example).
Being new to shell scripting and UNIX in general, I had a very tough time trying to sort out whether to use awk, sed, grep, and the various other UNIX commands. My line of logic is to first grep the attribute name ("Memory") and I got that far, but I'm not sure how to cut the VALUE from the string.
Another frustrating thing is that the UNIX box I need to run this script on is pretty "vanilla" in the sense that it does not appear to have any sort of XML parsing tools such as xmlt, etc. so I am stuck with using the default UNIX commands.
If someone can kindly advise me on how to approach this issue, that would be much appreciated!
Hi Jean
I require your help in writing a shell script. Iam zero in Unix programming. I have a large file about 400 MB of data, which contains about 50000 XML messages seperated by a Tab, I think. I need to extract only 4 values from each XML message and write it onto a new file. Please help me... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to extract the values for the 'src' and 'alt' tags within an xml file. In the files that I'm searching, the tags are always enclosed within an 'img' tag. Typically:
<img src="diwiz01.gif" width="576" height="254" alt="Out-of-process and In-process COM Objects"><bookmark... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Please help me out in resolving this..
<secondTag enabled='true' processName='test1' pidFile='/tmp/test1.pid' />
From the above tag, I'm trying to retrieve the value of enabled and pidFile attributes by means of processName attribute.
Would be thankful in resolving this..... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
Find the following code:
<Universal>D38x82j1JJ
</Universal>
I want to retrieve the value of <Universal> tag as below:
Please help me. (3 Replies)
Hi Guys
Here is my Input :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xn:MeContext id="01736">
<xn:VsDataContainer id="01736">
<xn:attributes>
<xn:vsDataType>vsDataMeContext</xn:vsDataType>
... (12 Replies)
I want to basically do the below thing. Suppose there is a tag called object1. I want to display an output for all similar tag values under heading of Object 1 and the count of the xmls. Please help
File:
<xml><object1>house</object1><object2>child</object2>... (9 Replies)
Hi,
My requirement is something like this,
I have a xml file that contains some tags and nested tags,
<n:tag_name1>
<n:sub_tag1>val1</n:sub_tag1>
<n:sub_tag2>val2</n:sub_tag2>
</n:tag_name1>
<n:tag_name2>
<n:sub_tag1>value</n:sub_tag1>
... (6 Replies)
Hi Forum.
I have an XML file with the following requirement to move the <AdditionalAccountHolders> tag and its content right after the <accountHolderName> tag within the same file but I'm not sure how to accomplish this through a Unix script.
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
... (19 Replies)
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mkmanifest
mkmanifest(1) General Commands Manual mkmanifest(1)NAME
mkmanifest - mtools utility to create a shell script to restore UNIX file names from DOS
SYNOPSIS
mkmanifest [files]
OPTIONS
None
OPERANDS
A list of UNIX file names to be converted to DOS name format.
DESCRIPTION
The mkmanifest command creates a shell script that aids in the restore of UNIX file names that were overwritten by DOS file name restric-
tions. DOS file names are uppercase only, cannot exceed 8 character names, 3 character extensions and do not support device names or non-
alphanumeric characters.
Not all UNIX file names are supported in the DOS world. The mtools commands may have to change UNIX names to fit the DOS file name conven-
tions. Most commands provide the verbose option (-v), that displays new file names if they have been changed. The following table shows
some examples of file name conversions:
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UNIX name DOS name Reason for the change
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thisisatest THISISAT file name too long
file.stuff FILE.STU extension too long
prn.txt XRN.TXT PRN is a device name
.abc X.ABC null file name
hot+cold HOTXCOLD illegal character
-----------------------------------------------
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Success. Failure.
EXAMPLES
Assume you have the following UNIX files that you want to copy to a DOS diskette using the mcopy command.
very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal: good.c prn.dev Capital
The mcopy command converts these file names to the following:
very_lon 2xmany.dot illegalx good.c xprn.dev capital
To restore the previous file names, use the mkmanifest command as follows: mkmanifest very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal:
good.c prn.dev Capital > manifest
The previous mkmanifest command line produces the following: mv very_lon very_long_name mv 2xmany.dot 2.many.dots mv illegalx illegal: mv
xprn.dev prn.dev mv capital Capital
The good.c file name did not require conversion, hence it was not included in the output.
If these files were copied from diskette to another UNIX system, and you wanted to restore the original names, retain a copy of the mani-
fest file (captured output) so that it can be used to convert the file names again.
FILES
Executable file
SEE ALSO
Commands: mcopy(1), mtools(1)mkmanifest(1)