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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers How can we extract specific elements from XML? Post 302988865 by RudiC on Wednesday 4th of January 2017 06:39:53 AM
Old 01-04-2017
For exactly your request and input data, try
Code:
grep "^<dir" file | tail -n+2 | head -1
<dir>doc/store834/extract</dir>

This works as the desired data is in one single line only, and it is not an "XML problem". For requests dealing with e.g. several layered structures extending across more than one line, there are better suited tools out there to handle xml structures.

Last edited by RudiC; 01-04-2017 at 07:46 AM..
 

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ZGREP(1)                                                      General Commands Manual                                                     ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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