Print text value from xml using sed

Question

using a one line sed command , how could i get the something and someone value?

<value name="something">someone</value>

Using the following regex <value name="(.*)">(.*)<\/value> i could retrieve the values with success using the site https://www.regex101.com/. But i'm not sure how could i do it using the command line.

Thanks in advance.

you should specify a bit the possible content of something and someone (for special char `<>/"`) that can create perturbation in delimiter pattern or we can assume this is only word with eventually space — NeronLeVelu, Dec 19 '14 at 12:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '14 at 11:28

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Something like

sed 's#.*name="\(.*\)">\(.*\)<.*#\1 \2#g'

Test

$ echo "<value name=\"something\">someone</value>" | sed 's#.*name="\(.*\)">\(.*\)<.*#\1 \2#g'
something someone

answered Dec 19 '14 at 11:28

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@Thales Glad to hear it helped :) – nu11p01n73R Dec 19 '14 at 11:32

Karthikeyan.R.S · Answer 2 · 2014-12-19T12:06:21.487

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Try this.

sed -r 's/.*"(.*)">(.*)<.*>$/\1 \2/'

edited Dec 19 '14 at 12:06

answered Dec 19 '14 at 11:56

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you can use `sed -r 's/.*"(.*)">(.*)<.*$/\1 \2/' file` instead – αғsнιη Dec 19 '14 at 12:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Noting the usual caveats about parsing XML with regular expressions, here's an XML parsing tool in action on your sample data that finds the attribute value and tag value for a "value" tag with a "name" attribute.

xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//value[@name]/@name' -n -v '//value[@name]' -n file.xml

something
someone

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Dec 19 '14 at 16:28

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Print text value from xml using sed

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