On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:37:44AM +0100, Dave selby wrote: > I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag & put it in a string. > > ie > <title>specialist cards</title> > > I need the "specialist cards" in a variable $titlecontents > I thought it would be easy with sed > > sed -n '/<title>/,/<\/title>/p' > > But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail. > > Any ideas ?
I'm sure this is not the pukka way to do it but for jim in html_file_directory/*; do grep \<title\> $jim | sed 's/.*<title>//' | sed 's/<\/title>.*//'; done > file_list.txt puts all the titles from the scripts in html_file_directory into file_list.txt. > > Dave > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]