Shell Programming and Scripting

<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>3</c><d>4</d><e>5</e><f>64</f>
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>33</c><d>4</d><e>56</e><f>63</f>
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>66</c><d>4</d><e>58</e><f>62</f>
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>77</c><d>4</d><e>59</e><f>61</f>

awk -f -v variable=c test.awk

3
33
66
77

awk -f -v variable=f test.awk

64
63
62
61

[user@cygwin ~]$ cat test.sh
#! /bin/bash
sed "s/.*<$1>\([^<]*\)<\/$1>.*/\1/" inputfile.xml
[user@cygwin ~]$
[user@cygwin ~]$ ./test.sh c
3
33
66
77
[user@cygwin ~]$ ./test.sh f
64
63
62
61
[user@cygwin ~]$

 
$ nawk -F"[<>]" -v var="a" '{for(i=1;i<=NF-1;i++)if($i~var){print $(i+1);next}}' test.txt
1
1
1
1
$ nawk -F"[<>]" -v var="b" '{for(i=1;i<=NF-1;i++)if($i~var){print $(i+1);next}}' test.txt
2
2
2
2
$ nawk -F"[<>]" -v var="c" '{for(i=1;i<=NF-1;i++)if($i~var){print $(i+1);next}}' test.txt
3
33
66
77
$ cat test.txt
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>3</c><d>4</d><e>5</e><f>64</f>
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>33</c><d>4</d><e>56</e><f>63</f>
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>66</c><d>4</d><e>58</e><f>62</f>
<a>1</a><b>2</b><c>77</c><d>4</d><e>59</e><f>61</f>

awk '$1==var{print $2}' var=c RS=\< FS=\> infile