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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Line Break Issue for an XML file Post 302565763 by Corona688 on Tuesday 18th of October 2011 04:42:34 PM

10-18-2011

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This should work in most shells:

Code:

$ cat xmlline.sh

#!/bin/sh

while read LINE
do
        if [ "${LINE:0:1}" != "<" ]
        then
                DATA="${DATA}${LINE}"
                continue
        fi

        if [ "${LINE:0:2}" = "</" ]      # close-tags
        then
                if [ -z "$DATA" ]
                then
                        printf "\n%s" $LINE
                else
                        printf "%s" "${DATA}${LINE}"
                        DATA=""
                fi
        else
                # Add a tag
                printf "\n%s" $LINE
        fi
done

echo    # Print the last newline

$ ./xmlline.sh < file.xml

<TABLE>
<TABLE-ROW>
<S_NO>1</ S_NO >
<REP_TYPE>TEST1</REP_TYPE>
<PROCESS_OFFICE>P</PROCESS_OFFICE>
<PACKAGE_LEVEL>C</PACKAGE_LEVEL>
</TABLE-ROW>
<TABLE-ROW>
<S_NO>2</ S_NO >
<REP_TYPE>TEST2</REP_TYPE>
<PROCESS_OFFICE>L</PROCESS_OFFICE>
<PACKAGE_LEVEL>C</PACKAGE_LEVEL>
</TABLE-ROW>
<TABLE-ROW>
<S_NO>3</ S_NO >
<REP_TYPE>TEST3</REP_TYPE>
<PROCESS_OFFICE>L</PROCESS_OFFICE>
<PACKAGE_LEVEL>C</PACKAGE_LEVEL>
</TABLE-ROW>
</TABLE>

$

It's a very straightforward parser and doesn't check for improperly nested tags, etc.

It was a very small modification to ditch the $1,$2,... array entirely since it's not doing checking.

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