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Old 02-16-2016
Retrieving details from a tag of xml file
Hi,

I want to retrieve details of a tag from xml file
1.xml
Code:
<abc> abcdefgh
ijklmn
opq
</abc>
<xyz>sdfsdf sdfsdfsdfgg </xml>

Required Output:
Code:
abcdefgh
ijklmn
opq

Last edited by rahulsk; 02-16-2016 at 05:11 AM.. Reason: code was not coming in the right manner
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Old 02-16-2016
This problem has been solved umpteen times in here. Did you search these fora? Did you consider the links at the lower edge of this page?
Howsoever, would this help?
Code:
sed -n '/<abc>/,/<\/abc>/ {s/<.\?abc>//;/^$/d;p}' file
 abcdefgh
ijklmn
opq

 
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