Shell Programming and Scripting

<name>7_3(A).mov</name>
      <description>Some description from a file</description>
      <updatename>7_3_A.mov</updatename>
      <updatepath>Dailies Released</updatepath>
      <playlist>Selects Day 5,Dailies Day 5</playlist>

IFS=, playlists=( $(awk '
    /<playlist>/ {
        gsub( "</playlist>.*", "", $0 );   # strip everything before and after
        gsub( ".*<playlist>", "", $0 );
        n = split( $0, a, "," );             # split each name and make unique
        for( i = 1; i <= n; i++ )
            seen[a[i]] = 1;
    }

    END {
        for( x in seen )               # print the list of unique "names"
            printf( "%s,", x );
        printf( "\n" );
    }
' file.xml  ) )

i=0
while (( $i < ${#playlists[@]} ))
do
    echo "$i ${playlists[$i]}"
    i=$(( i + 1 ))
done

awl '... above programme ' file.xml | while read name
do
   echo "$name"  # or other real work
done

 
result=$(nawk -F"[<>,]" '/playlist/ {printf("%s,%s\n",$3,$4)}' input.xml)
var1=$(echo $result | cut -d, -f1)
var2=$(echo $result | cut -d, -f2)