nixCraft Linux Forum - View Single Post - Parse XML file and store data in array in shell scripting

agn · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008, 02:31 PM

Code:

for tag in hostAddress username password instancecount
do
    grep  $tag in.xml | tr -d '\t' | sed 's/^<.*>\([^<].*\)<.*>$/\1/'
done

Something like the above might help. I don't use bash, so don't know how arrays are populated.