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Hi. im sure this sort of question is probably asked a lot, but I can't seem to find any helpful info.
I am writing a bash script. What I want is something which will search a file and output everything between two strings. e.g. if the file contains something like this:
<HTML>
<!--Description="this is a random example page"-->
<BODY>
<!--Heres some content-->
blahblahblahdablah
</BODY>
</HTML>
i want to put in something like: from "<!--Description=\"" to "\"-->" and get:
this is a random example page
I did try using grep, but I havent the faintest idea how to use it, and the man page didnt make it look like it was capable of this.
Thanks!
I didn't actually want it to output the "Here's some content" bit, I put that in there because I wanted it to destinguish between <!--Description and other comments. Anyways that doesn't matter because I managed to modify your example to do that.
It now looks like this:
Code:
grep '<!--Description' temp.html | sed 's/<!--Description="\(.*\)"-->/\1/g'
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