Extract value from XML file using shell script [duplicate]

Question

I have file filestore.xml from which I need to extract /local/armdata/data/filestore1, /local/armdata/data/filestore2.

grep binariesDir filestore.xml <binariesDir>/local/armdata/data/filestore1</binariesDir> <binariesDir>/local/armdata/data/filestore2</binariesDir> 

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Using XMLStarlet:

xml sel -t -v '//binariesDir' filestore.xml 

on Ubuntu with xmlstarlet package installed, I need to use this:

xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//binariesDir' filestore.xml 

Answer 2

You can use sed.

sed -nre 's:^.*<binariesDir>(.*)</binariesDir>.*$:\1:p' filestore.xml 

This handles both the searching for binariesDir and extracting the value between <binariesDir> and </binariesDir>.