Shell Programming and Scripting

well i have this xml file here: this file is called filereader.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<file>
<file1>
<filecopy>thefile.txt</filecopy>
<filecopy>thefile2.ppt</filecopy>

</file1>
</file>

hi..i got this problem....hmm how do i write a script to read this xml file? and how do i write the script that search for the Bold text inside the xml without using java.

Code:

sed -e '/filecopy/ !d' -e 's!<filecopy>\([^<]*\)</filecopy>!\1!' foo.xml

Cheers
ZB

well as im doing this in a script..how do i write this out...
#!/bin/sh
..
..
#i wrote this:
echo `sed -e '/filecopy/ !d' -e 's!<filecopy>\([^<]*\)</filecopy>!\1!' filereader.xml`

and when i run the script..it says cannot open filereader.xml.However if i paste this in the command itself without using script...i can get the output. what happen?

No need for the echo and backticks....

Just do

Code:

#!/bin/sh

sed -e '/filecopy/ !d' -e 's!<filecopy>\([^<]*\)</filecopy>!\1!' filereader.xml

exit 0

Then if that doesn't work check the path to the file.

Cheers
ZB

thanks! however after i get this out..
thefile.txt
thefile2.ppt
the script will need to check whether this file exist inside the directory..the directory is call ../checkdir. Usually the files will exist in the directory and it will echo file exist. hmm..any idea on this?

Code:

#!/bin/sh

sed -e '/filecopy/ !d' -e 's!<filecopy>\([^<]*\)</filecopy>!\1!' filereader.xml | while read file; do
  if [ -f "../checkdir/${file}" ]; then
     echo "File exists"
  fi
done

exit 0

Cheers
ZB

Wow! thanks thanks alot...zazzybob! cheerrsss...:P:P:P