Let me see if I understood you right.
You're downloading that xml file and then want to cut out the url to something?
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Set the url variables :)
id=$1
url="http://scafy.com/flv_player/data/playerConfig/$id.xml"
# Download the file to $pid.url (this is just to uniqueify the filename)
wget $url -O /tmp/$$.url
# the sed line looks throu what we just grep:ed for and searches for something starting with path="
# then it buffers whatever is contained between " and " and then replaces the whole line with the buffer.
file=$(grep files /tmp/$$.url | sed "s/^.*path=\"\(.*\)\">$/\1/")
# Download the url that we got above.
wget -c $file
# Remove the temp file so we don't get alot of crap lying around.
rm /tmp/$$.url
You were right on the money, the sed line is just what you needed
ps. If you're using
cat file | grep you can just aswell just use
grep "pattern" file, this way you only need to execute 1 program instead of 2. This saves you some time when doing large scripts that process alot of data
ds.
Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson
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