Re: using grep in a do shell script
Re: using grep in a do shell script
- Subject: Re: using grep in a do shell script
- From: Graham Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:01:37 -0800
this does not quite work...but is it a bit closer ?
many thanks
set my_path to (path to preferences) & "Fonovisa.xml" as string
set thepath to POSIX path of my_path
loadTextFile(thepath)
on loadTextFile(thepath)
try
set thestring to ""
set theScript to ("cat " & "'" & thepath & "'")
set thestring to do shell script theScript
--return thestring
set gimme to do shell script "echo " & thestring & " | tr '\\r' '\\n'
| sed -n '/<ram>/{s/.*<ram>\\(.*\\)<\\/ram>.*/\\1/p;}' "
return gimme
on error err
log ("Cat text file error: " & err)
end try
end loadTextFile
On Jan 24, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
Entity Graham Anderson spoke thus:
> if I have an xml tag
> <ram>512</ram> in an xml file...
> how can I get the '512' out of it
set someText to "
if I have an xml tag
<ram>512</ram> in an xml file...
how can I get the 512 out of it
this is what I have so far...currently it returns the whole xml file
just not sure how to do the same with a local file
3rd day in applescript learning curve...
many thanks
"
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of someText & " | tr '\\r' '\\n'
| sed -n '/<ram>/{s/.*<ram>\\(.*\\)<\\/ram>.*/\\1/p;}' "
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