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xmlbashsearchreplacequotes

Remove or replace double quotes from values of XML (specific search and replace)

I have the following XML: 

<smtng attr="bla"><desc>bla 12" bla</desc></smtng>

And I would like to use some command (preferably executable from bash) to replace the " after 12 with &quot;, but leave it as it is for the attr="bla" part...

Any ideas?

Solution

  • This may work, but you should really use the proper tools.

    sed 's|</\?desc>|\n&|g; s/\(<desc>[^"]*\)"\([^\n]*\n\)/\1\&quot;\2/g;s/\n//g' inputfile