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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions New user needs help with bourne shell script Post 302939064 by Don Cragun on Sunday 22nd of March 2015 03:02:02 AM
Old 03-22-2015
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Originally Posted by luislozoya
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. As it turns out the commands on the power point I was using were not compatible with my shell. I'm honestly not sure why, but I'm happy I got it going.
Shells read commands written in the shell programming language. The shell programming language has very special meanings for the single quote, double quote, and backquote characters. Power-point and other text formatting tools use things like opening and closing single quotes and opening and closing double quotes that are fine for humans reading text, but are not valid in the shell programming language.

Note also that the shell (and most other UNIX and Linux utilities) expect lines to be terminated by a <newline> character while Windows systems have utilities that expect lines to be terminated by a <carriage-return><newline> character pair. When preparing text to be processed on UNIX and Linux systems, be sure that whatever editor you choose uses <newline> as its line terminator.
 

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xmlstarlet

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NAME

       xmlstarlet - command line XML/XSLT toolkit

SYNOPSIS

       xmlstarlet [<options>] [<command>] [<cmd-options>]

INTRODUCTION

       XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files us-
       ing simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.
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OPTIONS

       --version
	      Display the version of xmlstarlet.

       --help Display help.

COMMANDS

       Type: xmlstarlet <command> --help <ENTER> for command help

       Available commands include:

       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).

       el (or elements)
	      Display element structure of XML document.

       c14n (or canonic)
	      XML canonicalization.

       ls (or list)
	      List directory as XML.

       esc (or escape)
	      Escape special XML characters.

       unesc (or unescape)
	      Unescape special XML characters.

       pyx (or xmln)
	      Convert XML into PYX format (based on ESIS - ISO 8879).

       p2x (or depyx)
	      Convert PYX into XML.

REFERENCES

       XMLStarlet is a command line  toolkit  to  query/edit/check/transform  XML  documents  (for  more  information  see  http://xmlstar.source-
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       Mikhail Grushinskiy.

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