Re: Searching Text Files

[Ed <glassnet -at- gmail -dot- com>]

The combination of find and grep looks most promising. I started with
Dossy's snippet and modified to:

find . -name \*.xml -exec grep "<acroterm>"[A-Za-z0-9]*"</acroterm>"
"{}" \; > test1.txt

That produces a text file with all lines that contain acroterm tags.
The next step will require deleting all of the text on each line
EXCEPT what is between those two tags.

Sorting the acronyms and deleting duplicates is desirable too.

BTW, Powergrep is useful, but I used Astrogrep to test the regex on my
Windows box.

Thanks.
ED
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