Pattern matching extracting urls from rss, shell scripts

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all, how could i do ?

I have a Rss file, i want to extract only the Urls (many) matching XXX Sex - Free Porn Videos at XXX.com from that file and copy into another file.

like

"
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table><tr valign="top"><td width="67"><a href="Apple - Movie Trailers - The Hangover"><img src="http://images.apple.com/moviesxml/s/wb/posters/thehangover_m200904271417.jpg" width="65" height="97" border="0"></a></td><td> � </td><td><a href="Apple - Movie Trailers - The Hangover/"><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 900; text-decoration: underline;">The Hangover - Trailer 2</span></a><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;">Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out bachelor party they�ll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the ustin Bartha</span></td></tr></table>]]></content:encoded> .....

all made with bash script file.

thanks 4 help !

:o

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cat << EOF |
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST</pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<table><tr valign="top"><td width="67"><a href="Apple - Movie Trailers - The Hangover"><
img src="http://images.apple.com/moviesxml/s/wb/posters/thehangover_m200904271417.jpg" width="65" height="97" bord
er="0"></a></td><td> � </td><td><a href="Apple - Movie Trailers - The Hangover/"><span style="font-size: 16px
; font-weight: 900; text-decoration: underline;">The Hangover - Trailer 2</span></a><bill_run_id /><span style="fo
nt-size: 12px;">Two days before his wedding, Doug and his three friends drive to Las Vegas for a blow-out bachelor
 party they�ll never forget. But, in fact, when the three groomsmen wake up the ustin Bartha</span></td></t
r></table>]]></content:encoded> .....
EOF
tr '<' '\012' |
tr '>' '\012' |
grep '^a href' |
sed -e 's/a href=.//' \
    -e 's/.$//'
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Maybe something like this:

perl -ne '{ while (/.*?(http:\/\/www.*?.com\/trailers\/).*?/gi) { print $1,"\n"; } }' <your_filename>

HTH,
tyler_durden

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4

thanks lot, that fine, works well

:wink: