<job xmlns="http://www.sample.com/">programming</job>

I need a way to extract what is in the <job..> </job> tags, programmin in this case.

This should be done on linux command prompt, using grep/sed/awk.

solution-1

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grep '<job' file_name | cut -f2 -d">"|cut -f1 -d"<"

solution-2

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sed -ne '/<\/job>/ { s/<[^>]*>\(.*\)<\/job>/\1/; p }'

notes: -n stops it outputting everything automatically;

-e means it's a one-liner (aot a script) /<\/job> acts like a grep;

s strips the opentag + attributes and endtag;

; is a new statement;

p prints;

{} makes the grep apply to both statements, as one