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Use sed to insert a character in an xml file
I have an xml file with content following this format: <type:color>000000</type:color> <type:color>FFFFFF</type:color> The information within the tags are hex colors (many ...
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sed inline not working to modify XML-style input
the problem is that I cannot put the complete command on a line with SED, I had already done it but with those file it does not work: my exemple : <file>Documents/time/text1</file> //2X ...
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SED command to delete a forward slash "/" between 2 tags
I am using Linux, and I want to use sed to delete a forward slash (/) between 2 tags. From this: input.xml... <file>/text</file> <file>/text2</file> <file>/text</file&...
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Can I extract complete dates from file with grep command?
I need help using grep to extract a zoned date time from a file on a Linux system. Source file is a XML with the data below: <item start="20231010073000 +0100" stop="20231010100000 +...
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Insert contents of file into XML attribute
I have a text file called branch.txt: $ cat branch.txt DEMAND_NAME-CR-1234 DEMAND_NAME-CR-8970 Using the above branch name, I have to find and replace some values using a sed command: branch_name=`(...
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Problems with replacing XML tag contents using sed
I have the following XML piece: <value id="1" creatorId="0" creationTime="1639487132" expirationTime="1639573532">+380554446363</value> <value id=...
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How to extract a portion of an XML tag value in a Bash script
I have a XML file like this (A.xml) : <?xml version="1.0"?> <RunParameters xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-...
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Find XML file with specific path
I'm working with XML files, each of which could be dozens of lines long. There are literally hundreds of these files, all over a directory structure. Yes, it is Magento. I need to find the file that ...
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How can XPath functions be expressed to output each input element?
I'm using this command: xmllint --xpath 'substring-after(string(//item/link), "_")' rss.xml And get the desired output, except it's on the first element. How would I fix this to have it be ...
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Trying to read XML attributes from multiple files and replacing them with a number 1.25 times greater than they were before
I am trying to write a bash script or something similar, that I can use to modify all occurrences in a bunch of xml files with one click. I have 24 xml files, each containing a few dozen lines and ...
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Bash script to parse XML color file
I have an XML color file that I want to transform to a Kotlin equivalent. Given this input file colors.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> &...
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awk: change line to itself parsed with command. Multiline text
I'm trying to answer a question. It involves using the command recode. A specific line has to be parsed by the command leaving the rest untouched. The file is an xml file. Example: <ITEM_ID>...
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Use xmlstarlet to remove an entire element that matches an attribute value?
My question is similar to sed - Delete XML node containing certain element - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange. Trying to implement the suggestions there has kept me busy all day, but I haven't managed ...
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Awk File processing to get last processed weekday
My application which does processing based on input XML's, processes the input files and adds the status to status_file.txt after processing. I am writing a script to identify the last processed day ...
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Variables inside heredoc with multiple files
I have a heredoc with xml content, and I add the content of another file like this: bar file: <bar> $baz </bar> the script: bar=$(cat bar.xml) # this would be the ideal, of course it ...
