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Diff XML files

Diffs two xml files by formatting them first using xmllint and then invoking diff. Usage: diffxml XMLFile1 XMLFile2
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diffxml() { diff -wb <(xmllint --format "$1") <(xmllint --format "$2"); }

sharfah · 2011-10-06 07:36:13 1
Adding formatting to an xml document for easier reading

This will indent the input to be more readable. Warnings and messages are not send to STDOUT so you can just use a pipe to create the formatted outputfile, like: tidy -i -xml in.xml > out.xml Show Sample Output
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```
tidy -i -xml <<EOF
<first>text</first><second><sub>test></sub></second
EOF


No warnings or errors were found.

<first>text</first>
<second>
  <sub>test&gt;</sub>
</second>
```
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tidy -i -xml <inputfile>

Testuser_01 · 2012-11-03 18:10:58 0
Simple XML tag extract with sed

Limited, but useful construct to extract text embedded in XML tags. This will only work if bar is all on one line. If nobody posts an alternative for the multiline sed version, I'll figure it out later...
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sed -n 's/.*<foo>$[^<]*$<\/foo>.*/\1/p'

recursiverse · 2009-07-23 07:59:30 0
extract element of xml

poor man's xml parser :)
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xml2 < file.xml | grep ^/path/to/element | cut -f2- -d=

bandie91 · 2011-12-19 18:51:17 1
Validate all XML files in the current directory and below

If everything validates, there's no output. Can be handy to run on a cron job set up to email output.
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find -type f -name "*.xml" -exec xmllint --noout {} \;

bradbeattie · 2011-01-25 18:26:57 0
Prettify XML in pipeline

xmllint2 comes with GNU libxml2 library. (based on: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Format_your_xml_document_using_xmllint) Show Sample Output
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```
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<foo>
  <bar/>
</foo>
```
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echo '<foo><bar/></foo>' | xmllint --format -

akavel · 2012-01-12 09:39:56 0
Download files linked in a RSS feed

The difference between the original version provided and this one is that this one works rather than outputting a wget error
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curl $1 | grep -E "http.*\.mp3" | sed "s/.*$http.*\.mp3$.*/\1/" | xargs wget

theodric · 2015-09-17 13:19:53 1
Prettify an XML file

Like `tidy`, `xmllint` can be used to prettify XML files. The --nsclean option is also useful to remove redundant namespaces.
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xmllint --format --xmlout --nsclean <file>

seb1245 · 2012-11-27 06:13:23 0
Download all files from podcast RSS feed

Neither of the others worked for me. This does.
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curl http://url/rss | grep -o '<enclosure url="[^"]*' | grep -o '[^"]*$' | xargs wget -c

dakira · 2016-05-29 12:07:21 0
Get Hardware UUID in Mac OS X

Formats the output from `ioreg` into XML, then parses the XML with `xmllint`'s xpath feature. Show Sample Output
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```
08E4F05C-349D-4F23-8980-E2C3EA66DA2A
```
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ioreg -ad2 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | xmllint --xpath '//key[.="IOPlatformUUID"]/following-sibling::*[1]/text()' -

n8felton · 2018-08-18 21:19:47 0
Download mp3 files linked in a RSS podcast feed

Directly download all mp3 files of the desired podcast
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curl http://radiofrance-podcast.net/podcast09/rss_14726.xml | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_%:-]*mp3" | sort -u | xargs wget

pascalv · 2021-08-09 13:40:26 1
Lists unambigously names of all xml elements used in files in current directory

This one will work a little better, the regular expressions it is not 100% accurate for XML parsing but it will suffice any XML valid document for sure. Show Sample Output
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```
a
b
body
br
center
div
fieldset
font
form
func:function
func:result
h1
h2
h4
head
html
i
img
input
label
li
link
meta
noscript
option
p
sc
script
select
span
strong
style
table
tbody
td
textarea
th
title
tr
ul
xsl:apply-templates
xsl:attribute
xsl:call-template
xsl:choose
xsl:copy-of
xsl:for-each
xsl:if
xsl:include
xsl:otherwise
xsl:param
xsl:stylesheet
xsl:template
xsl:text
xsl:value-of
xsl:variable
xsl:when
xsl:with-param
```
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grep -Eho '<[a-ZA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_-:]*' * | sort -u | cut -c2-

inkel · 2009-08-05 21:54:29 0
List your Boxee queue

Might be able to do it in less steps with xmlstarlet, although whether that would end up being shorter overall I don't know - xmlstarlet syntax confuses the heck out of me. Prompts for your password, or if you're a bit mental you can add your password into the command itself in the format "-u user:password". Show Sample Output
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```
queued  Youtube video
queued  TEDTalks : The amazing intelligence of crows - Joshua Klein
queued  The Fresh Prince of the Dark Side Pranks Christian TV
queued  Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
queued  Flight of the Conchords Ep 6 Bret, You've got it Going On
```
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curl -u <username> http://app.boxee.tv/api/get_queue | xml2 | grep /boxeefeed/message/description | awk -F= '{print $2}'

Strawp · 2010-01-20 16:17:19 3
Play 2600 off the hook over ssh

Ever wanted to stream your favorite podcast across the network, well now you can. This command will parse the iTunes enabled podcast and stream the latest episode across the network through ssh encryption. Show Sample Output
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```
High Preformance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59s-mh4 (2000/Oct/27). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Playing MPEG stream from standard input ...
Found new ID3 Header
MPEG 2.0 layer III, 64 kbit/s, 22050 Hz joint-stereo
```
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curl -L -s `curl -s http://www.2600.com/oth-broadband.xml` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

denzuko · 2010-07-30 23:20:50 0
Play a podcast via XPath and mpg123

Gets the latest podcast show from from your favorite Podcast. Uses curl and xmlstarlet. Make sure you change out the items between brackets.
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curl -L -s `curl -s [http://podcast.com/show.rss]` | xmlstarlet sel -t -m "//enclosure[1]" -v "@url" -n | head -n 1` | ssh -t [user]@[host] "mpg123 -"

denzuko · 2010-07-31 00:17:47 0

this simply curls the feed and runs a xpath query on it ... Show Sample Output

atomtitles () { curl --silent $1 | xmlstarlet sel -N atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" -t -m /atom:feed/atom:entry -v atom:title -n}

Seebi · 2010-12-15 11:03:31 0

xpath function

This function uses xmllint to evaluate xpaths. Usage: xpath /some/xpath XMLfile Show Sample Output
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```
$ xpath "//head/title" index.html
<title>All commands | commandlinefu.com</title>
```
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xpath () { xmllint --format --shell "$2" <<< "cat $1" | sed '/^\/ >/d' }

sharfah · 2011-10-05 07:45:16 0
Transform an XML document with an XSL stylesheet

The XML document can be transformed to text, XML, HTML or anything else. The --stringparam option allows to set XSL variables externally.
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xsltproc --stringparam name value <xsl_stylesheet> <xml_document>

seb1245 · 2012-11-09 15:54:46 0
Open/modify .odt in nano with indentation

OpenDocument documents from OpenOffice.org,LibreOffice and other applications, are actually ZIP archives. Useful informations in these archives are in XML format. Here we like it or do not. Anyway, the XML files have the unfortunate tendency to not be indented, and for good reason: they consist of only one line! To solve the problem and to use a proper editor on the content, I proceed as follows. Required xmlindent You can also use : zip document.odt content.xml And it works with vi instead of nano !
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unzip document.odt content.xml && xmlindent -w content.xml && nano content.xml

arthurdent · 2012-12-01 17:05:28 0
extract XML RSS etc by tags such as <title> or <code> or <description>

set BLOCK to "title" or any other HTML / RSS / XML tag and curl URL to get everything in-between e.g. some text
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curl ${URL} 2>/dev/null|grep "<${BLOCK}>"|sed -e "s/.*\<${BLOCK}\>$.*$\<\/${BLOCK}\>.*/\1/g"

c3w · 2013-08-31 14:53:54 0

Download files linked in a RSS feed

This script can be used to download enclosed files from a RSS feed. For example, it can be used to download mp3 files from a podcasts RSS feed. Show Sample Output

wget -q -O- http://example-podcast-feed.com/rss | grep -o "<enclosure[ -~][^>]*" | grep -o "http://[ -~][^\"]*" | xargs wget -c

talha131 · 2013-09-24 12:38:08 0

Highlight the plain text in XML (or HTML, SGML, etc)

Don't want to open up an editor just to view a bunch of XML files in an easy to read format? Now you can do it from the comfort of your own command line! :-) This creates a new function, xmlpager, which shows an XML file in its entirety, but with the actual content (non-tag text) highlighted. It does this by setting the foreground to color #4 (red) after every tag and resets it before the next tag. (Hint: try `tput bold` as an alternative). I use 'xmlindent' to neatly reflow and indent the text, but, of course, that's optional. If you don't have xmlindent, just replace it with 'cat'. Additionally, this example shows piping into the optional 'less' pager; note the -r option which allows raw escape codes to be passed to the terminal. Show Sample Output

xmlpager() { xmlindent "$@" | awk '{gsub(">",">'`tput setf 4`'"); gsub("<","'`tput sgr0`'<"); print;} END {print "'`tput sgr0`'"}' | less -r; }

hackerb9 · 2015-07-12 09:22:10 0

Download files linked in a RSS feed

Just added a little url encoding with sed - urls with spaces don't work well - this also works against instead of enclosure and adds a sample to show that you can filter against links at a certain domain Show Sample Output
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```
Reusing existing connection to www.yourfeed.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 176975 (173K) [application/pdf]
Saving to: 'MyFile.pdf'

MyFile.pdf            100%[==================================================================================================================>] 172.83K   488KB/s   in 0.4s   

2015-10-30 15:06:24 (488 KB/s) - 'MyFile.pdf' saved [176975/176975]
```
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wget -q -O- http://www.yourfeed.com/rss | grep -o "<link[ -~][^>]*" | grep -o "http://www.myfeed.com[ -~][^\"]*" | sed "s: :%20:g" | xargs wget -c

dermidgen · 2015-10-30 22:13:43 0
Download first mp3 file linked in a RSS feed
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wget `curl -s <podcast feed URL> | grep -o 'https*://[^"]*mp3' | head -1`

tbon3r · 2017-07-16 23:02:03 0
validate xml in a shell script.

For debian likes, that's in python-xml package.
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xmlproc_parse.python-xml &>/dev/null <FILE> || exit 1

sputnick · 2009-12-11 17:30:03 1
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Faster find and move using the find and xargs commands. Almost as fast as locate.

Only tested on Linux Ubunty Hardy. Works when file names have spaces. The "-maxdepth 2" limits the find search to the current directory and the next one deeper in this example. This was faster on my system because find was searching every directory before the current directory without the -maxdepth option. Almost as fast as locate when used as above. Must use double quotes around pattern to handle spaces in file names. -print0 is used in combination with xargs -0. Those are zeros not "O"s. For xargs, -I is used to replace the following "{}" with the incoming file-list items from find. Echo just prints to the command line what is happening with mv. mv needs "{}" again so it knows what you are moving from. Then end with the move destination. Some other versions may only require one "{}" in the move command and not after the -I, however this is what worked for me on Ubuntu 8.04. Some like to use -type f in the find command to limit the type.

Search apache virtual host by pattern

Outputs contents of virtual hosts containing PATTERN. Particularly useful for pefrorming complex searches. E.g. search for docroot of www.example.com: $ sed -n '/^[^#]*

Benchmark SQL Query

Benchmark a SQL query against MySQL Server. The example runs the query 10 times, and you get the average runtime in the output. To ensure that the query does not get cached, use `RESET QUERY CACHE;` on top in the query file.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Read choice from user instantaneously

Usage exaple cmd $echo 'Sure to continue ??'; read -n1 choi; if [ "$choi" = 'y' ] || [ "$choi" = 'Y' ]; then echo -e '\nExecuting..'; else echo 'Aborted'; fi

Downmix first audio stream from 7.1 to 5.1 keeping all other streams

Useful for Roku which does not support 7.1. Useful resources: - https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Map - https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/HighQualityAudio - https://superuser.com/questions/852400/properly-downmix-5-1-to-stereo-using-ffmpeg

combining streams

2>&1 permit to combinate stdout and stderr. grep will catch stderr and stdout instead of stdout only.

Matrix Style

I like the fact the Patola's version uses only ones and zeros, but I also like the sparse output of the other versions. This one combines both of those features and eliminates some unnecessary cruft. You can vary the sparseness by changing "$(($RANDOM % 5))" to another number. The number in this term "$(($RANDOM % 4))" controls how frequently the numbers are output bold.

Look for English words in /dev/urandom

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