Extract text between two tags and save each result in separate files

Question

I want to retrieve whatever is between these two tags <data ... - </ data> and export each result in a separate text file This command works very well, but unfortunately output is one file :-(

sed -n '/<data*/,/<\/data>/p' Input.txt > Output.txt

Do you have any suggestion for this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can get the results into separate containers if we forward the sed o/p to csplit

sed -e '/<report>/,\|</report>|!d' input.txt |
csplit -s -z -f Output -  '/<\/report>/+1' '{*}'

• Depending on the file input, you will see Output00, Output01,...
• The splitting is done on the line following the regex