What command should be used to get text from a line of an XML file on linux?

I have a text file and from that file i have to get specific text. What command should be used to get it?

e.g. file text is as follows:

<name>this is first line</name>
<name>thi开发者_运维百科s is second line</name>
<name>this is third line</name>

I have to get only text from these tags, i.e. i need "this is first line".

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Assuming that it is actually a full xml document, you might (should) prefer

xmllint -xpath '//name/text()' test.xml

Or if you want to have newlines, you can

xsltproc.exe trafo.xslt test.xml

with trafo.xslt like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:for-each select="//name[text()]">
            <xsl:if test="text()">
                <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
                <xsl:text>&#x0a;</xsl:text>
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Sehe's answer doesn't add newlines between the lines. I'd suggest using the following instead:

xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//name/text()' -v '.' -n  test.xml
#              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^
#              for each xpath match    |     |
#                          print the result  |
#                         followed by a newline

or

xmlstarlet sel -t -m '//name' -v 'text()' -n  test.xml
#               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^
#          for each name tag       |       |
#    print the text that's inside it       |
#                         followed by a newline

(they behave a little differently regarding where they print newlines)

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I believe you need all the text inside the <name> tags 1 line per tag.

grep -Po "(?<=<name>)[^<]*(?=</name>)" yourfile

The result will be

this is first line
this is second line
this is third line

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Ruby(1.9+)

$ ruby -ne 'puts $_.scan(/<name>(.*?)<\/name>/)' file
this is first line
this is second line
this is third line

awk

$ awk 'BEGIN{ RS="</name>" }/<name>/{ gsub(/.*<name>/,"");print }' file
this is first line
this is second line
this is third line

sed

$ sed -r 's|<name>(.[^>]*)</name>|\1|' file
this is first line
this is second line
this is third line

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grep will help you find the right lines. If it is formatted regularly, maybe you can use cut to remove the <name> tags? If it's not, then sed is probably the right tool for the job.

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Is this would work for you ? (not sure to understand your need) :

cat yourfile | grep "this is first line"