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Old 07-03-2013
Regular Expression needed for the xml
I would like to match the regular below xml snippet by using the following grep command. I want match the lines as well could some please help me ..
grep -il "<tokenValue>.*.</tokenValue>\n...*.amey.*.</userName>"


<tokenValue>kfqcU9+akXJxFbPvh8x5EyLyu9dbNBg5bC0l8HlJA3ic7KnBnrYZ1aW7kArruzQhG+5lucFE</tokenValue>
<sessionStatus>Active</sessionStatus>
<loginTime>2013-07-03T09:36:18.378Z</loginTime>
</sessionToken>
<userName>amey</userName>
# 2  
Old 07-03-2013
Hello,

Could you please paste the expected output as requirement is not pretty clear.


Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 07-03-2013
Hi Ravi,

Expected o/p is the same xml, after running the grep command.

<tokenValue>kfqcU9+akXJxFbPvh8x5EyLyu9dbNBg5bC0l8HlJA3ic7KnBnrYZ1aW7kArruzQhG+5lucFE</tokenValue>
<sessionStatus>Active</sessionStatus>
<loginTime>2013-07-03T09:36:18.378Z</loginTime>
</sessionToken>
<userName>amey</userName>
# 4  
Old 07-03-2013
Code:
sed -n '/<tokenValue>.*<\/tokenValue>/,/balaje<\/userName>/p' file

# 5  
Old 07-03-2013
Hello,

lets say we have a file named test1212 which have the data and we want to match data as per your requirement, so we can try the following code.

But this following code will search only words starting and ending.

Code:
 
awk '/\<sessionStatus\>/,/\<\/sessionStatus\>/' test1212

Similarly you can use <loginTime> and other tags to seacrh them in a specific file. Please let me know if you have any queries.




Thanks,
R. Singh
# 6  
Old 07-03-2013
Thanks Ravi and Balaji.

Its working but I have pretty lenghty xml and it matches everything, where ever the string occurs. I want these specific 5 lines in my output and not rest.

How that can be done? Also could you please what is does ' , ' coma means ? Is it a new line ?

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Code:
awk '/\<tokenValue\>/,/\<sessionStatus\>Active\<\/sessionStatus\>/,/\<loginTime\>.*.\<\/loginTime\>/,/\<\/sessionToken\>/,/\<userName\>amey<\/userName\>/'  filename

I tried this its giving me syntax error. Could you please correct this ?
Code:
awk: /\<tokenValue\>/,/\<sessionStatus\>Active\<\/sessionStatus\>/,/\<loginTime\>.*.\<\/loginTime\>/,/\<\/sessionToken\>/,/\<userName\>amey<\/userName\>/
awk:                                                              ^ syntax error
awk: /\<tokenValue\>/,/\<sessionStatus\>Active\<\/sessionStatus\>/,/\<loginTime\>.*.\<\/loginTime\>/,/\<\/sessionToken\>/,/\<userName\>amey<\/userName\>/
awk:                                                                                                                     ^ syntax error

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-03-2013 at 08:28 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 7  
Old 07-04-2013
/start_pattern/,/end_pattern/ -> tells the interpreter to match all the lines from (and including) the line matching start_pattern through to (and including) the line matching end_pattern.

Therefore, multiple /.../,/.../,/.../,/... is wrong

As an alternative, you can also use the -A switch of grep (available in GNU grep). The number after -A switch, is the number of lines to be displayed from file after the line that matches the pattern.
Code:
[user@host ~]$ cat file
<tokenValue>kfqcU9+akXJxFbPvh8x5EyLyu9dbNBg5bC0l8HlJA3ic7KnBnrYZ1aW7kArruzQhG+5lucFE</tokenValue>
<sessionStatus>Active</sessionStatus>
<loginTime>2013-07-03T09:36:18.378Z</loginTime>
</sessionToken>
<userName>amey</userName>
[user@host ~]$ grep -A2 "tokenValue" file
<tokenValue>kfqcU9+akXJxFbPvh8x5EyLyu9dbNBg5bC0l8HlJA3ic7KnBnrYZ1aW7kArruzQhG+5lucFE</tokenValue>
<sessionStatus>Active</sessionStatus>
<loginTime>2013-07-03T09:36:18.378Z</loginTime>
[user@host ~]$

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