I want to extract a link http://www.rediff.com/news from the below <a> tag
<a href="http://www.rediff.com/news" onclick="trackURL('http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://www.rediff.com/news___&cmp=news1_nav&lnk=news1_nav&nsrv1=ushome');return false;"><div class="n_tabnormal">News</div></a>
using some Unix command. Please No hard coding for this.
Using XML/HTML parsers is a right way to manipulate XML/HTML data:
xmlstarlet solution:
sed 's/&/&/g' yourfile | xmlstarlet sel -t -v '//a[div/text() = "News"]/@href' -n The output:
http://www.rediff.com/news sed 's/&/&/g' - to convert ampersand & as a special char into HTML entity
//a[div/text() = "News"]/@href - xpath expression, extracts href attribute value of a tag if it has child node div with text News
