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Old 05-25-2012
Question Parsing Values from XML
Hi all,

Can anyone help me out in parsing values from the xml in shell script below..

Code:
<DropDB>
        <DBName>RMDatabase</DBName>
        <UName>root</UName>
        <PWord>test</PWord>
</DropDB>


I need the values RMDatabase , root and test alone ... Smilie

Thanks in advance Smilie


-Selva
# 2  
Old 05-25-2012
Hi


Code:
$ awk -F '[<>]' 'NF>3{print $3}' file
RMDatabase
root
test

Guru.
# 3  
Old 05-25-2012
Code:
# awk '/^  */{print $3}' FS='[<>]*' file
RMDatabase
root
test

Code:
# sed -n '/^  */s/ *[></]*\|[A-Z]*Name\|PWord//pg' file
RMDatabase
root
test

Code:
# cut -d'<' -f2 file|cut -d'>' -f2

RMDatabase
root
test

Code:
# sed -n '/Drop/!s/.*>\(.*\)<.*/\1/p' file
RMDatabase
root
test

Code:
# while read -r line ; do expr "$line" : '<.*>\(.*\)</.*>';done <file

RMDatabase
root
test

regards
ygemici
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