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07-02-04, 02:59

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Unix newbie, string parsing

hi,

i need to parse a large XML file, which contains one element:

<subject>NNR</subject>

I need to extract NNR in this example. Any knows how i can do this? The subject occurs only ones. Can use grep or something simple.

thanks

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07-02-04, 09:45

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Try this:

grep '<subject>' XMLfile.txt|cut -d\> -f2|cut -d\< -f1

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