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Old 08-07-2016
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I need to extract text between numerous story-title=" "
Code:
<trending-story id="US_lnk_swT_mwAwAABMLM_en" sparkline="story.sparkline" story-index="(pageIndex * ctrl.trendingStoriesPerPage) + storyIndex + 1" story-title="Vaccine, Zika virus" story-title-array="story.entityNames" image-url="//t0.gstatic.

This outputs blank file:
Code:
sed -n '/^story-title="/s/\(.*"\)/\1/p' original > output

Thanks for guidance.
# 2  
Old 08-08-2016
With a standards-conforming version of sed, try:
Code:
sed -n 's/.* story-title="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' original > output

If you're using a GNU sed, you might need to use:
Code:
sed --posix -n 's/.* story-title="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' original > output

# 3  
Old 08-08-2016
Thanks, both those commands hang/freeze in bash terminal, but they led to solving in 2-parts, which I'd like to consolidate into 1:
Code:
sed -n '/story-title="/s/\(.*"\)/\1/p' original > output

this extracts just the trending-story line, omitting all unnecessary HTML:
Code:
<trending-story id="US_lnk_swT_mwAwAABMLM_en" sparkline="story.sparkline" story-index="(pageIndex * ctrl.trendingStoriesPerPage) 
+ storyIndex + 1" story-title="Vaccine, Zika virus" story-title-array="story.entityNames" image-url="//t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbjJz
A7QdFk9ILYGiBBRNHdH3Q_S8hwVBzsBuEeZLNG-O1LoE2inJDx0aSQl6YuU24cRzhk2Faqyg" news-url="http://www.universityherald.com/articles/
36465/20160807/zika-vaccine-university-of-maryland-works-on-zika-vaccine-and-tests-on-human.htm" image-source="University Herald" hide-image=
"ctrl.hideAllImages" show-news-snippet="false" sparkline-size="ctrl.sparklineSize" class="ng-isolate-scope"><div class="trending-story-wrapper">

and this:
Code:
sed -r 's/.*story-title="([^"]+).*/\1/' output > output2

outputs what I want:
Code:
Vaccine, Zika virus

I tried running the sed -r command above with "original" file > output, and it also freezes/hangs in terminal. Anyhow, suggestion for consolidating the 2 working scripts would be appreciated.
Last edited by p1ne; 08-08-2016 at 01:00 PM.. Reason: code lines too long
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