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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting 'for LINE in $(cat file)' breaking at spaces, not just newlines Post 302548598 by Corona688 on Thursday 18th of August 2011 09:34:56 PM
Old 08-18-2011
Code:
for LINE in $(cat file.xml)

This is a useless use of cat. Where did you learn this? We need to discover and stop whoever's teaching this, new shell scripters always try it and it's pretty much always wrong. You've discovered only one of the many problems with this programming pattern.

Try this instead -- faster, splits where you want, doesn't waste memory, and doesn't truncate large files.
Code:
while read LINE
do
...
done < file.xml

Code:
if [ -n "$(echo $LINE | grep '<.*>' | grep -ve '<\/.*>')"

You don't always have to check a program's output text, you can check its return value.
Code:
if echo "$LINE" | grep -q ...

The xmlstarlet utility can do lots of things with XML but is quite difficult to use. I don't know a good general-purpose XML solution because parsing XML is definitely not trivial in shell or any other language.

Working on something.
 

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platform::shell

platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

platform::shell 						       1.1.4							platform::shell(n)
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