Re: Searching Text Files

[Dossy Shiobara <dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com>]

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

-- 
Dossy Shiobara              | dossy -at- panoptic -dot- com | http://dossy.org/
Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ComponentOne Doc-To-Help gives you everything you need to author and 
publish quality Help, Web, and print content. Perfect for technical 
authors, developers, and policy writers. Download a FREE trial.
http://www.componentone.com/DocToHelp/

True single source, conditional content, PDF export, modular help.
Help & Manual is the most powerful authoring tool for technical
documentation. Boost your productivity! http://www.helpandmanual.com

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info.