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Hey Guys,

I'm new here so... nice to meet you all

I would like to know if someone can help me out...

I'm using CentOS 5.5 And I want to write a script that gives me two phrases from a .txt file.

untill now, no problem, but... here is the "Tricky" part, the file looks something like this:

<cell data blah blah blah>
<blah="something" blah="some" bla="something">
<blah=something blah="I-WANT-THIS-PHRASE" Blah="something>
< blah blah blah blah="something" blah blah="I-WANT-THIS-PHRASE-2">
now, the thing is that i want the sed or awk or what ever not only to 'egrep' me those phrases but i want it to (>) to a file and in the file i will see in one line (in this specific order): I-WANT-THIS-PHRASE I-WANT-THIS-PHRASE-2

Hope you could help me out here

Thanks alot!
un4get.

If you already know how to get those phrases, it's almost not tricky at all. Just use

or something similar.

meaning - is this a right way? grep /dir/of/file/*.xml | egrep -i '(phrase1|phrase2)' - what from here?

thanks alot!
un4get.

No, it is not. Just one (e)grep is enough:
But be careful. You are probably working with XML or SGML, so using a parser might save you troubles later.

sorry of the lack of knowledge but i still don't understand how to put the two phrases I Want from *.xml files and put the in a phrase1 phrase2 order...

Could you give a more detailed specification?