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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Command to read between patterns in a while Post 302990730 by venkidhadha on Tuesday 31st of January 2017 09:33:43 AM
Old 01-31-2017
Hi Rudic,
Actually the input file[input.txt] had tags other than <test></test1>

ex :
Code:
<test>12312 njh</test1>
<tag1>apple</tag1>
<tag2>orange</tag2>
<test>abcdedfg
hijklmno
abched</test1>
<test>apple ball
cat orange
pineapple
mango</test1>

I used "
Code:
sed - n '/<test>/,/<\/test1>/{s/<tag1>.*//;s/<tag2>.*//;p;}' input.txt

So got only the required tags in the output, but I am not able to count the characters between tags as some tags have newline in between and some tags don't have. I am a newbie to Shell. Kindly, please help

Expected output is :
Code:
0-30 char : ?
>30 characters :?



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Last edited by venkidhadha; 01-31-2017 at 10:46 AM.. Reason: Added code
 

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