BASH : Assigning sed result in an array on shell script

Question

I used the sed function to exact the values from a XML file but I'm stuck on how to assign it to a array.

This is the sed code

sed -n 's|<url>\(.*\)</url>|\1|p' filename.xml

The result is

VALUE1
VALUE2
VALUE3
VALUE4

How to assign these values to an array?

Thank you

Not an answer, but somewhat related - you might get some use out of xmlstar.sourceforge.net, makes shell scripting with XML a little more reliable. — synthesizerpatel
– synthesizerpatel, Commented Feb 27, 2014 at 6:49

Barmar · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-27 07:07:28Z

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Put the values inside (...) in an assignment:

IFS=$'\n' array=($(sed -n 's|<url>\(.*\)</url>|\1|p' filename.xml))

answered Feb 27, 2014 at 6:38

Barmar

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