Shell Programming and Scripting

Try this:

Code:

sed 's~^.*<XYZ>\(.*\)</XYZ>.*$~\1~' filename

Nice use of regular expressions.

Thnx Guyz,
The above code also worked as expected.

Now, I want this value in between the tags to be captured in a variable.
I want to search my file for number of occurances for this value.

Eg.
If i have the following lines in my file:
I want to count the number of occurances for each of these values inside tag <XYZ>
Ths, i want to capture this value in a variable.
So, i can further use the value of this variable in

Code:

grep -c $<Variable> <MyFile>

I tried it but i am able to get this value in a file and not a variable.

Help !!!

Code:

 
sed 's~^.*<XYZ>\(.*\)</XYZ>.*$~\1~' xml4.xml > temp.txt
sed 's~^.*<XYZ>\(.*\)</XYZ>.*$~\1~' xml4.xml | sort -u | \
while read xx ; do
    tmps=$(egrep -c "$xx" temp.txt)
    echo "$xx="$tmps 
done

Maybe a command like this can do the trick:

Code:

sed 's:.*<XYZ>\(.*\)</XYZ>.*:\1:g;' yourfile.txt | sort | uniq -c

Hey Guyz,
Both the codes worked as expected.
Thanks a lot.
Cheers

Wov...that is nice.
I totally forgot about uniq -c option.
Good job.