Thursday, October 6, 2022

[SOLVED] Parse HTML using shell

Issue

I have a HTML with lots of data and part I am interested in:

<tr valign=top>
<td><b>Total</b></td>
<td align=right><b>54</b></td>
<td align=right><b>1</b></td>
<td align=right>0 (0/0)</td>
<td align=right><b>0</b></td>
</tr>

I try to use awk which now is:

awk -F "</*b>|</td>" '/<[b]>.*[0-9]/ {print $1, $2, $3 }' "index.html"

but what I want is to have:

54
1
0
0

Right now I am getting:

'<td align=right> 54'
'<td align=right> 1'
'<td align=right> 0'

Any suggestions?


Solution

awk  -F '[<>]' '/<td / { gsub(/<b>/, ""); sub(/ .*/, "", $3); print $3 } ' file

Output:

54
1
0
0

Another:

awk  -F '[<>]' '
/<td><b>Total<\/b><\/td>/ {
    while (getline > 0 && /<td /) {
        gsub(/<b>/, ""); sub(/ .*/, "", $3)
        print $3
    }
    exit
}' file


Answered By - konsolebox
Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)
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