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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove XML parent start and end tags in same file Post 302465373 by durden_tyler on Friday 22nd of October 2010 09:25:57 AM
Old 10-22-2010
Code:
$
$ # list all XML files in this directory
$ ls -1 *.xml
f1.xml
f2.xml
f3.xml
$
$ # show the content of all 3 XML files
$ cat f1.xml
<DummyLevel>
<level1> </level1>
<level2> </level2>
<level3> </level3>
<level4> </level4>
<level5> </level5>
<level6> </level7>
</DummyLevel>
$
$ cat f2.xml
<DummyLevel>
<level1> </level1>
<level2> </level2>
<level3> </level3>
<level4> </level4>
<level5> </level5>
<level6> </level7>
</DummyLevel>
$
$ cat f3.xml
<DummyLevel>
<level1> </level1>
<level2> </level2>
<level3> </level3>
<level4> </level4>
<level5> </level5>
<level6> </level7>
</DummyLevel>
$
$ # Run a Perl one-liner to perform inline edit in each XML file.
$ # Each file is backed up first.
$ perl -i.bak -pe 's/(<DummyLevel>|<\/DummyLevel>)\n//' *.xml
$
$ # show the content of each XML file after the operation
$ cat f1.xml
<level1> </level1>
<level2> </level2>
<level3> </level3>
<level4> </level4>
<level5> </level5>
<level6> </level7>
$
$ cat f2.xml
<level1> </level1>
<level2> </level2>
<level3> </level3>
<level4> </level4>
<level5> </level5>
<level6> </level7>
$
$ cat f3.xml
<level1> </level1>
<level2> </level2>
<level3> </level3>
<level4> </level4>
<level5> </level5>
<level6> </level7>
$
$

HTH,
tyler_durden
 

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