[LearnAdmin] How to parse xml tags in bash or retrieve xml tag values in linux

[Naresh Surampudi]

Consider the following example file test.xml

        1
        test123
        2
 

 grep -E -m 1 -o "(.*)" test.xml

This will return "test123"


if you want only the value we need to pipe it further

grep -E -m 1 -o "(.*)" test.xml | sed -e 's,.*\([^<]*\).*,\1,g'

This will return "test123"

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Posted By Naresh Surampudi to LearnAdmin at 4/10/2014 02:43:00 PM