sed display line after pattern match

inonzi_prowler · 02-19-2007, 09:38 AM

hello all.

so i'm sending some text (xml) to sed and I have a particular string that I can match.

Thing is, I need the line after the string to be displayed.

text looks like this:

Quote:

I need the line that comes after the string <Owner> (i.e. the line with 7066589 in it.

I've tried this:

cat file.xml | sed -n -e '/<Owner>/n'

but I get nothing returned. I need to do this on a whole bunch of files.

Many thanks in advance for any replies.

inonzi_prowler · 02-19-2007, 09:44 AM

oh yeah the line <Owner> only appears once per file, but the pattern <standardPartyId> appears quite often (as you would have probably gathered).

pixellany · 02-19-2007, 11:39 AM

Here is a really good SED tutorial.

I am rusty on SED, but I think you will use the command to read a new line, followed by print.

In the basic syntax, you are operating strictly on the line that has been read into the "pattern space"--without reading a new line, there is no way to print it.

schneidz · 02-19-2007, 01:47 PM

how about printing the line number (season to taste):

Code:

line=`grep -n ^<Owner> file.xml | cut -f 1 -d :`
line=`expr $line + 1`
sed -n "$line"p 837.tmp