Shell Programming and Scripting

Yes, you ARE running under Solaris.
Don't use plain old 'awk', but rather the posted alternatives no matter what other changes you'll be making to the script itself.

oh really? Thank you, I had not been doing in UNIX for a while now, kinda floating away from me. Thank you for the advice.

tempReplacement=$(nawk '
/<Tag ABC=1>/ {
tagnum += 1
}
/<tag_value1>/ && tagnum==2 {
print "<tag_value1>some_other_value</tag_value1>" ;
next
}
1
' file.xml)

Well it worked, right now i am trying to fix it as well, because it will change other <tag_value1> as i move on to another xml file that contain have the same thing as the first one except that <tag_value1> is all over the place. aigles' code worked perfect if the second <Tag> is the last one in the xml file. The other one xml file contain a lot more <tag_value1>. Right now I am trying to tweak aigles code to change just the second

<Tag ABC=1>
<tag_value1>some_value</tag_value1>
</Tag>

and not the rest of the <tag_value1> that come after the second <Tag>.

Thank you both for replying. I really appreciate both your help (especially aigles).

NVM, figured it out, instead of using next to loop through everything, I had used exit 1 as soon as the second tag is located. Thank you.

BTW do you know if i could use sed to change the value though? because using the aigles' code, i am printing to the file instead of updating it.

Cheers.

If you want to update the file :

Code:

awk ' ...... ' file.xml > file.xml.tmp
mv file.xml.tmp file.xml

Jean-Pierre.

Thank you.