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XMLERR: Element '=").*?(?=")</regex' not closed while using lookaround
I am trying to use lookaround element in PCRE2 regex for Wazuh tool, i need to match strings which are in double quotes and made the below regex however it looks its picking up "<" ...
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How to get all numbers AND IPs from string using regex?
Let's say I have the following example string: <ETH0_IP><![CDATA[10.0.100.10]]></ETH0_IP> I would like to extract the first number and the IP in the following format: 0 10.0.100.10 ...
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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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sed command succesfuly find and replace in file , bit erasing everything in the new file
i have this xml text in file named test2.txt <This is a line of text with a year=2020 month=12 in it This line of text does not have a year or month in it This year=2021 is the current year the ...
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sed regex fails to capture the entire paragraph containing the pattern
I have this XML file (example) <This is a line of text with a year=2020 month=12 in it This line of text does not have a year or month in it This year=2021 is the current year the current month=1 ...
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How to Search XML Block and Delete the same
This is my XML. <configGroup> <type>SERVER_CONFIG</type> <configProperty id="Server48"> <configProperty> <name>Server Name</name> <...
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Regex groups not greedy?
Are sed matches always greedy? I am trying to use sed to append an XML comment into an XML file as early as possible, which is right after the XML declaration if there is one. Something like this, ...
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Script to remove all modules in pom.xml except the one with the highest number
Question I have a huge pom.xml from a Talend DI/ESB project, where it was possible to have multiple lines for the same module with different Talend specific versions (don't even ask for that :-( ) ...
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Linux sed regex escape
I use sed -i to replace the port value in a xml file, <property name="port" value="8954" /> But I don't know how escape the regex, my regex is below. (?<=name="port"\s+value=")\d+(?=") my ...
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How to find max value from specific XML element using a Perl one liner?
I have an XML file with the following syntax <element> <id>0</id> <tag1>something</tag1> ... <tagn>something</tagn> </element> <element> ...
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Delete line only if previous line has tag - sed ? or easier?
I'm facing a rather newbie problem and caught my ears around it :( I have a file with xml tags and I want that when I find: </ac:image> </a> the </ac:image> one followed by an ...
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Complex string replace - multiple files, multiple different strings, must include certain text
I have a number of XML files (Atlassian Confluence space exports FYI), that I need to parse through to replace certain strings, as long as the line begins with a set string. Here is an example of a ...
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$1 not working with sed
I have a bunch of files that contain XML tags like: <h> PIDAT <h> O I need to delete everything what comes after the first <h> in that line, so I can get this: <h> For ...
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Sed/awk Regex : XML feed
I'm searching for a specific REGEX, 3 days I'm trying and trying but not founding the right answer. I need to delete specific parts of an xml feed, I tried with sed, awk and it's not working right. ...
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Using sed to get specific text from XML file
Not sure why I'm not getting this. I've been searching and testing my command for a couple hours and I'm not getting anywhere. The text is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ...