Shell Programming and Scripting

Here is my requirement to be more elaborate:-

I have a ram.inc file in account ramdev2:-

<username> ram </username>
<password> tttt </password>
<port-no> 1000 </port-no>
<data1> hhh </data1>
<data2> ttt </data2>

By using sudo -u ramdev2 i need to connect to the ramdev2 account and find the file "ram.inc" parse it and get only the port-no (which is 1000) and save this value in a .txt file and return it. All these needs to be done through a shell script. Please do provide a solution for this. I will be really thankful to u guys. It is really urgent.


Thanks,
Sachin

Please do provide an answer...Since it is really urgent.

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Sorry Madhan, I dont have any other choice where i need
to deliver this today. Since i am pretty new to shell scripts i am finding it difficult. Sorry if i have written anything wrong.
I read some of the suggestions given by you, pls. do provide a solution for this with an example. It will be really helpful.

try this,

Code:

sudo -u ramdev2 sh -c " sed -n '/port-no/s/\(.*>\)\(.*\)\(<\/.*$\)/\2/p' inputfile > outputfile "

Madhan,

Using the command i am not able to get the port no. value in output file. I tried with few other options where nothing worked. Pls. do provide a solution.

I thought I gave that !

just try this,

Code:

sudo -u ramdev2 sh -c " sed -n '/port-no/s/\(.*>\)\(.*\)\(<\/.*$\)/\2/p' inputfile "

and post the output that you get !

The above one-liner is based on the sample file that is provided