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scott
On Monday 17 April 2006 9:00 pm, David Dooling wrote:
> On 4/17/06, Scott Granneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Alan German <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Apr 17, 2006 10:48 AM
> > Subject: SED (or other) command help
> > To: Scott Granneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Given a file, similar to
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > stuff
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <pre>
> > content of interest
> > </pre>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > I'd like a command line to rewrite that file, keeping the <pre></pre>
> > tag pair and the content inbetween, so that the result looks like:
> >
> > <pre>
> > content of interest
> > </pre>
>
> This should work as long as the pre block does not contain another pre
> block:
>
> $ awk 'BEGIN {RS="\a"; FS="pre>"} { print "<pre>" $2 "pre>" }' input.html
>
> The record separator (RS) should be some character that is not in the
> file (above I use the audible bell). It is possible to do in sed, but
> it would be a very long command line.
>
> As pointed out by others, the real solution is not a one-liner but
> using an HTML or XML parser.
>
> --
> David Dooling
>
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