I have this:
curl -H \"api_key:{key}\" http://api.wordnik.com/api/word.xml/dog/definitions
How do I parse this (within the commandline) to make it take whatever's in between <text> and </text> in this page?
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A:
$ curl ....... | awk -vRS="</text>" '/<text>/{ gsub(/.*<text/,""); print "->"$0}'
$ curl ....... | awk 'BEGIN{RS="</text>"}/<text>/{ gsub(/.*<text/,""); print "->"$0}'
Note, use GNU awk. (gawk)
ghostdog74
2010-10-21 02:02:43
I'm getting this: awk: invalid -v option
Elijah W.
2010-10-21 02:12:16
what OS are you using?
ghostdog74
2010-10-21 02:13:40
10.6 I think------
Elijah W.
2010-10-21 02:15:54
I'm getting this now: % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed100 4127 100 4127 0 0 1272 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 3745Mac5:~ elijahwood$
Elijah W.
2010-10-21 02:18:52
I asked you what OS. Linux? solaris? Ubuuntu? Fedora? etc... I don't know what is 10.6. Its just a number to me.
ghostdog74
2010-10-21 02:19:04
ohh mac osx ----
Elijah W.
2010-10-21 02:20:34
Check your awk version. If you don't have gawk, consider installing it: http://gawk.darwinports.com/. Also, check if you are actually getting something back using curl (without awk). Show the curl output in your question
ghostdog74
2010-10-21 02:25:06