I just discovered this morning this cool utility in my /bin directory : xmllint
You can use it to extract values from your xml files within your shell scripts
$ cat foo.xml
<emplist>
<emp no="1">
<ename>John</ename>
</emp>
<emp no="2">
<ename>Jack</ename>
</emp>
</emplist>
$ echo 'cat //emplist/emp[@no="1"]/ename/text()'|
xmllint --shell foo.xml |
sed -n 3p
JohnI like this !
sed -n 3p
did not work for me
sed -n 2p
did work!
…or use sed to delete the lines with the “/ > ” prompt?
sed ‘/^\/ >/ d’
Ok, you have got a different input, thanks for your feedback
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