Shell Programming and Scripting

Code:

perl -p0e 's/<Placemark>\n[^\n]+\n[^\n]+WPA-PSK-TKIP.*?<\/Placemark>\n//sg' file

Your shell script worked also ahamed, but i dont seem to be able to output the result to a txt file.

> file.kml returns an error
| gedit returns an empty page

Sorry im such a n00b. Im not really up on this sort of thing

what is the error you got? paste it
It should be like this

Code:

./script "pattern" >> file.kml

regards,
Ahamed

Code:

remove=BTHomeHub 
sed -ne '/<Placemark>/{N;s/\(.*\)\n\(.*'$remove'.*\)/x\n\2/};/x/,/<\/Placemark>/d;p' file >newfile1
or
sed -ne '/<Placemark>/{N;s/\(.*\)\n\(.*'$remove'.*\)/x\n\2/;};/x/,/<\/Placemark>/{;{/'$remove'/{;:x;;n;/<\/Placemark>/!bx;/<\/Placemark>/d;};}};p' file > newfile1

Code:

remove=WPA-PSK-TKIP
sed -ne '/<Placemark>/{N;N;s/\(.*\)\n.*\(.*'$remove'.*\)/x\n\2/};/x/,/<\/Placemark>/d;p' file >newfile2

regards
ygemici

Does anyone knows how can this be implemented using busybox. The first issue I had was with the for loop which I was able to fix with this and a counter j=j+1 in the loop:

Code:

while j <= i

Which I think will do the same but now this statement:

Code:

echo ${x[$j]}

Causes this error: Syntax error: Bad substitution.

I am not really sure how this script does it's magic so I am not really sure how to make it work with busybox with the same results; which is to eliminate the whole xml element if the string is found in this element .... <Movie>....</Movie> vs <Placemark> in my case.

Thank you