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Old 03-28-2012
Find string in XML file, copy contents of section
I am new, really new to bash scripts.

I want to search an XML file for a certain string, say "1234567890"

Once found, I want to copy the entire contents from the previous instance of the string "Entity" to the next instance of "/Entity" to a txt file.

And then continue searching for the string in the same file.

Thank you for any guidance,

jrfiol
Last edited by jrfiol; 03-28-2012 at 11:29 AM.. Reason: read it and felt it needed more
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Old 03-28-2012
What's your system?

With some versions of awk/nawk you can do this:

Code:
$ echo "<entity><slartibartfast>1234567890</slartibartfast></entity><entity><slood>abcd</slood></entity>" |
        awk -v RS="<entity" -v FS="<" '/1234567890/ && ($NF == "/entity>") { print RS $0 }'
<entity><slartibartfast>1234567890</slartibartfast></entity>

$

Last edited by Corona688; 03-30-2012 at 01:03 PM.. Reason: whoops, didn't mean to stretch the window
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jrfiol
# 3  
Old 03-28-2012
RHEL
My system is RHEL 5.5
# 4  
Old 03-28-2012
RHEL uses GNU awk, so Corona's example should work.
# 5  
Old 04-09-2012
Thanks for the reply, i have been able to get the awk command to get the value i was looking for. thaks!
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