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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace the .txt file between two strings in XML file Post 302816569 by Franklin52 on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 07:47:12 AM
Old 06-04-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by Padmanabhan
Hi i tried the below one,Because my end string is /> and replacement file is file6.txt
but i am getting below error.
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
Please help me

Code:
awk '/^<PersonInfoShipTo*/>$/{p=1;print;print "file6.txt"}/^<PersonInfoShipTo*/{p=0}!p' inputcopy.xml

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
 

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SYNOPSIS

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COMMANDS

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       ed (or edit)
              Edit/update XML document(s).

       sel (or select)
              Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc).

       tr (or transform)
              Transform XML documents(s) using XSLT.

       val (or validate)
              Validate XML document(s) (well-formed/DTD/XSD/RelaxNG).

       fo (or format)
              Format XML document(s).

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              Display element structure of XML document.

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              XML canonicalization.

       ls (or list)
              List directory as XML.

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              Escape special XML characters.

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              Unescape special XML characters.

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