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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Create simple script Post 302621551 by Corona688 on Tuesday 10th of April 2012 03:45:31 PM
Old 04-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by corfuitl
Dear all,

I have a directory named A and some subdirectories named B, C, D with .xml files. I want to use the following command to strip the file.
Code:
sed -re ':start s/<[^>]*>//g; /</ {N; b start}' file.xml > file.xml

Doesn't work that way. You shouldn't write to the same file you're reading, you'll truncate it.

Quote:
At the same time, I want to remove the blank lines using
Code:
sed '/^$/d'

How can I create a simple script for all files?
If your sed's work, then:

Code:
for FILE in *.xml
do
        sed -re ':start s/<[^>]*>//g; /</ {N; b start}' "$FILE" > /tmp/$$
        sed '/^$/d' < /tmp/$$ > "$FILE".new
done

rm -f /tmp/$$

Remove the '.new' once you've tested it and are sure it does what you want. It's all too easy to destroy your originals by accident when you edit them automatically.
 

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