RE: Searching Text Files

["Inbar, Paul" <paul -dot- inbar -at- intel -dot- com>]

Hi Ed,

Several things to pay attention to/watch out for:

Does the text between the tags consist exclusively of alphanumerical
characters?

Are the open and close tags always on the same line? (I believe grep is
line-based, so you have to be sure the items you want to match always
occurs in within a single line. In Perl you can do pattern matching
across lines.

Can there is be more than one set of tags on each line? 

Regarding getting rid of all the text except what is between the tags,
in Perl you can "grab" the match and then just print that.

Regarding sorting and getting rid of duplicates, don't forget the
utilities "sort" and "uniq".

Good luck!
Paul

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The combination of find and grep looks most promising. I started with
Dossy's snippet and modified to:

find . -name \*.xml -exec grep "<acroterm>"[A-Za-z0-9]*"</acroterm>"
"{}" \; > test1.txt

That produces a text file with all lines that contain acroterm tags.
The next step will require deleting all of the text on each line
EXCEPT what is between those two tags.

Sorting the acronyms and deleting duplicates is desirable too.

BTW, Powergrep is useful, but I used Astrogrep to test the regex on my
Windows box.

Thanks.
ED
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