[SOLVED] sed match span text with style

ted_chou12 · 03-11-2012, 03:43 PM

Hi, I am trying to match:

Code:

<span style="display: none;">2012/03/10 19:44</span>
<span style="display: none;">2012/05/11 19:44</span>
<span style="display: none;">2012/04/10 06:44</span>

The "display: none;" will be consistent with a space in between strictly, the only variable is the time span and it is the actual string i am trying to extract.

Code:

sed -rn ':span style="display: none;">.*<\/span:\1:p' "$html"

Thanks,

colucix · 03-11-2012, 04:14 PM

It seems you missed the s command. Furthermore, you can't use a colon as separator, since it appears in the regular expression. Maybe you need something like this:

Code:

sed -r 's@<span style="display: none;">(.+)</span>@\1@' file

Hope this helps.

ted_chou12 · 03-11-2012, 06:30 PM

Thanks, but this seems to give me the whole file instead of the specific line.
Ted

colucix · 03-11-2012, 06:33 PM

Yeah, sorry. Just add the -n option and the p modifier as in your example:

Code:

sed -rn 's@<span style="display: none;">(.+)</span>@\1@p' file