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Old 02-07-2011
Finding a pattern
Hi,

I have the below content in file:
Code:
 
 
<xmlfile> ows_Body="Hi" ows_Title="Title" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>

I wanted to remove ows_Body content from the file.

I am using the below code

Code:
 
sed -e 's/ows_Body.*ows/ows/g'

Giving output:

Code:
 
<xmlfile> ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>


Desired output:
Code:
 
 
<xmlfile> ows_Title="Title" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>

I have to take data between only the first occurence of ows_ & ows_Body

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Krishna
# 2  
Old 02-07-2011
Code:
sed 's/ows_Body=[^ ]* //' file

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mahish20
# 3  
Old 02-07-2011
Hi Franklin,

Thanks for the reply. It worked for the input given by me in the orginal post. But if I have 'space' in the data of the attributes its failing.

Input:

Code:
<xmlfile>  All" ows_Title="Title: Execution of Unix" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>


Code:
 
sed 's/ows_Body=[^ ]*//g'

Output:

Code:
<xmlfile>  All" ows_Title="Title: Execution of Unix" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>

Desired output:

Code:
 
<xmlfile> ows_Title="Title: Execution of Unix" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>

Please advise
# 4  
Old 02-07-2011
try:
Code:
|awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if($i!~/_Body/) printf $i" "}}{print""}' file

# 5  
Old 02-07-2011
Code:
 $ ruby -ne 'print $_.gsub(/[\s]*ows_Body.[^\s]*/,"")' file

# 6  
Old 02-07-2011
Kurumi & Yin,

The above commands is again giving the same output as below:
Code:
 
 
xmlfile>  All" ows_Title="Title: Execution of Unix" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>

But the desired output should be

Code:
<xmlfile> ows_Title="Title: Execution of Unix" ows_Author="krishna" </xmlfile>

# 7  
Old 02-07-2011
Hi Mahish,
Could you see more clearly what is your requirement?
It looks different requirement between your first example and the above example?
Do you want to remove the content between <xmlfile> and "ows_Title=*" from the file?

Y
 
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