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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing characters from end of line (length unknown) Post 302587502 by dirtyd0ggy on Thursday 5th of January 2012 06:27:22 AM
Old 01-05-2012
Removing characters from end of line (length unknown)
Hi

I have a file which contains wrong XML, There are some garbage characters at the end of line that I want to get rid of. Example:

<request type="product" ><attributes><pair><name>q</name><value><![CDATA[LOL]]></value></pair><pair><name>start</name><value>1</value></pair></attributes></request>�J I�i�Y�Y��'z�3�u�J�5��}���#Q/k;!�ˑ�9Q){_������ŐF
<request type="product"><attributes><pair><name>q</name><value><![CDATA[LOL2]]></value></pair><pair><name>start</name><value>1</value></pair></attributes></request>4/lIT�l��'�c�Oֲ�{�;��_?��(>͏Y�mP��

How can I remove the garbage characters after </request> ? Or in other words, How to remove string between </request> and <request> ?

Please note from <request> to </request> is just one line so

Code:
awk '/<request t/ , /<\/request>/' test.txt

does not work.


My purpose is to extract value when name is "q" (LOL and LOL2) in this case. So if that can be done , easily, I am not bothered about removing the junk characters.


Thank you for your time.
 

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otest

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NAME

     otest -- SenTestingKit, OCUnit.

SYNOPSIS

     otest [-SenTest Self | All | None | <TestCaseClassName/testMethodName>] path

DESCRIPTION

     otest runs the unit tests found in the bundle given at path.

ARGUMENTS

     -SenTest value  This flag denotes the scope of the unit test to be run. Possible values are Self, All, None and <TestCaseClassName/test-
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ENVIRONMENT

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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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