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Yankee
Yankee

Reputation: 27

How to extract values from an xml file using shell script?

I have this xml file.

<body>
<part1>
   <para1>abc</para1>
   <para2>def</para2>
   <ver>1234</ver>
</part1>    
</body>

I need to store the value given by ver i.e. 1234 in a variable.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1944

Answers (1)

Luuk
Luuk

Reputation: 14968

Different options:

  1. using xmlstarlet:
ver=$(xmlstarlet sel -t -m //ver -v . test.xml)
  1. using xmllint (see also Native shell command set to extract node value from XML:
ver=$(xmllint --xpath "//ver/text()" test.xml)
  1. Using gawk:
ver=$(gawk -F "[><]" '/<ver>/{ print $3 }' test.xml)

Upvotes: 7

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