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Or:

Code:

awk -F"<|>" '/<schema>/{print $3}'

Code:

sed -n 's|.*<\(ownername\)>\(.*\)</*\1>.*|\2|p'

thank you so much for your help

my input file Sample.txt format has changed little bit </owner_name>

line 1
<owner_name>balaji</owner_name>
line 2
line 3
line 4

please help me for the same.

Since slash is a meta-char, you need \/ or [/].

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Code:

sed '
  s/.*<schema>\([^<]*\)<\/schema>.*/\1/
  t quit
  d
  :quit 
  q
 ' Sample.txt

Code:

sed -n 's|.*<\(owner_name\)>\(.*\)</*\1>.*|\2|p' infile

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Hi DGPickett, actually I don't think I do, since I am using | as the separator, so it isn't a metacharacter in this case.

True, I stand corrected -- must have had my head tilted.

You just do not exit after the first hit is printed.

I have not used many options like post-s p only good with -n because they are utterly redundant to other, more modular, less limited, more general pieces, and space in my head is more precious than disk space. Commands are designed by committee, it seems.

Your right, it is not that efficient, but the idea is that there may be more then one pair of tags (each on the same line otherwise it will not work), to quit I'll gladly use your solution

Code:

sed 's|.*<\(owner_name\)>\(.*\)</*\1>.*|\2|;te;d;:e;q' infile

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This should work with content spread over more than one line

Code:

awk '$2=="/owner_name"{gsub(/\n/," ",$1);print $1}' FS=\< RS=\> infile