Hey guys, I'm trying to simply pull a line (semi-static entry) from an xml file online with a shell script, or perl script.

Basically, I've got a URL that loads an XML file.

From this file I want to pull a text entry:

<blah xml code blah 'http://static.address.com/static_directory/dynamic_filename.123' blah xml code blah>

I would like to do this from a shell or perl script.

I would like to parse the xml file so that it just pulls the http - .123 information and ends there, that's the only information I need.

it will then run a local command on this file.

bash or perl would be wonderful, if anyone has any premades laying around

Thanks in any case!

Parsing XML is a complicated business. Writing a parser in pure shell script is not going to be easy. You would do better to use Perl or Python IMO.