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Old 10-12-2014
sed to remove partial text in one line only
I have test.xml XML file like

Code:
<Report account="123456" start_time="2014-09-08T00:00:00+00:00" end_time="2014-09-10T23:59:59+00:00" user="Dollar Tree" limit="1000000" more_sessions="some text ">
<Session ......rest of xml...............

I need output like

Code:
<Report>
<Session ......rest of xml...............

Can some one help me how to use of SED command to get the desired output..
Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-12-2014 at 07:39 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
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Old 10-12-2014
Code:
sed -e 's/\(<Report\)[^>]*/\1/'

# 3  
Old 10-12-2014
Hi,

Thanks for your reply..I have tried below command

Code:
sed -e 's/\(<Report\)[^>]*/\1/' test.xml

but i cannot see the output as

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Report>
<Session ...>

The report tag description is not deleting ....I can see the same old output as

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Report account="123456" start_time="2014-09-08T00:00:00+00:00" end_time="2014-09-10T23:59:59+00:00" user="Dollar Tree" limit="1000000" more_sessions="some text ">
<Session ......rest of xml...............

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Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-12-2014 at 10:06 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags.
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Old 10-12-2014
Code:
sed -e 's/^<Report.*$/<Report>/'

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