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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with sed command - find a string between two characters Post 302714683 by vivek_damodaran on Friday 12th of October 2012 12:13:38 PM
Old 10-12-2012
Help with sed command - find a string between two characters
Hi,

I have a xml file (Config.xml)
Code:
<Header name="[Measure]" TDate="[COB]" PDate="[PCOB]">
        <Config>
                {"config" { "Nation" "Pri:[Region]|Sec:[SecRegion]"}}
        </Config>
</Header>

Now I wanted to printed all the strings between "[" and "]". I tried the following
Code:
cat Config.xml | sed -n 's/.*\[//;s/\].*//p'

But its only printing below strings (the last occurance in each line).
Code:
PCOB
SecRegion

What I expect is
Code:
Measure
COB
PCOB
Region
SecRegion

Can someone help please?

Thanks
 

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xxorregion

XIntersectRegion(3)						  XLIB FUNCTIONS					       XIntersectRegion(3)

NAME

       XIntersectRegion, XUnionRegion, XUnionRectWithRegion, XSubtractRegion, XXorRegion, XOffsetRegion, XShrinkRegion - region arithmetic

SYNTAX

       int XIntersectRegion(Region sra, Region srb, Region dr_return);

       int XUnionRegion(Region sra, Region srb, Region dr_return);

       int XUnionRectWithRegion(XRectangle *rectangle, Region src_region, Region dest_region_return);

       int XSubtractRegion(Region sra, Region srb, Region dr_return);

       int XXorRegion(Region sra, Region srb, Region dr_return);

       int XOffsetRegion(Region r, int dx, int dy);

       int XShrinkRegion(Region r, int dx, int dy);

ARGUMENTS

       dest_region_return
		 Returns the destination region.

       dr_return Returns the result of the computation.  ds Dy move or shrink

       dx
       dy	 Specify the x and y coordinates, which define the amount you want to  the specified region.

       r	 Specifies the region.

       rectangle Specifies the rectangle.

       sra
       srb	 Specify the two regions with which you want to perform the computation.

       src_region
		 Specifies the source region to be used.

DESCRIPTION

       The XIntersectRegion function computes the intersection of two regions.

       The XUnionRegion function computes the union of two regions.

       The XUnionRectWithRegion function updates the destination region from a union of the specified rectangle and the specified source region.

       The XSubtractRegion function subtracts srb from sra and stores the results in dr_return.

       The XXorRegion function calculates the difference between the union and intersection of two regions.

       The XOffsetRegion function moves the specified region by a specified amount.

       The XShrinkRegion function reduces the specified region by a specified amount.  Positive values shrink the size of the region, and negative
       values expand the region.

SEE ALSO

       XCreateRegion(3), XDrawRectangle(3), XEmptyRegion(3)
       Xlib - C Language X Interface

X Version 11							   libX11 1.5.0 					       XIntersectRegion(3)
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