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I'd like to pass HTML output from curl to be parsed using sed. The problem I'm having is being able to delete all lines before a <PRE> tag. Right now, ...
  1. 06-16-2008 #1
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    Deleting all text before a given HTML tag using sed

    I'd like to pass HTML output from curl to be parsed using sed. The problem I'm having is being able to delete all lines before a <PRE> tag. Right now, the output looks something like the following:

    <HTML>
    LINE OF GARBAGE
    LINE OF GARBAGE
    <PRE>GOOD LINE (1)
    GOOD LINE (2)
    GOOD LINE (3)
    GOOD LINE (4)
    </PRE>
    LINE OF GARBAGE
    </HTML>

    So far, I have the following:
    curl -s site.com/page.html | sed -e '1,/<pre>/d' -e '/<\/pre>/,$d'

    and the output is:
    GOOD LINE (2)
    GOOD LINE (3)
    GOOD LINE (4)

    However, the line containing the PRE tag (GOOD LINE (1)) gets deleted. :\ If anyone knows how to modify the code to delete all the lines before PRE (and not including it) that would be greatly appreciated if you could help me out.
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  2. 06-16-2008 #2
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    Code:
    curl ..... | awk '/<PRE>/,/<\/PRE>/'
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    Thank you very much. Your help has been much appreciated.
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  4. 06-16-2008 #4
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    Or if you really want to use sed:
    Code:
    curl ..... | sed -n '/<PRE>/,/</PRE>/p'
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  5. 06-17-2008 #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by scm View Post
    Or if you really want to use sed:
    Code:
    curl ..... | sed -n '/<PRE>/,/</PRE>/p'
    you left out the escape.
    Code:
    curl ..... | sed -n '/<PRE>/,/<\/PRE>/p'
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  6. 06-17-2008 #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by ghostdog74 View Post
    you left out the escape.
    Code:
    curl ..... | sed -n '/<PRE>/,/<\/PRE>/p'
    Yeah, that's what sed told me when I ran it - thanks for being so observant. I should have cut'n'pasted the corrected one I ran after that.
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