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If you use grep instead of sed, you can use the -o option to print
only the pattern, not the line...
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com> wrote:
> Ed wrote:
>> 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.
>
> find . -name \*.xml \
> -exec grep "<acroterm>.*</acroterm>" "{}" \; \
> | sed -e 's#^.*<acroterm>(.*)</acroterm>.*$#\1#' \
> > test1.txt
>
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