Hi, I have a file,lets say InputList which contains a list of files. Inputfile /home/kgeorg/nishana/survey_pages/common/AdvancedSearchPage.jsp /home/kgeorg/nishana/survey_pages/common/Footer.jsp /home/kgeorg/nishana/survey_pages/common/Header.jsp etc.. I have to open each file in Inputlist,parse through it and get the information stored in the meta tag For Eg <Title>ABC Personal Finance, Credit Cards, Business Services, and Travel Services</title> <META NAME ="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="credit card, express, Credit Cards, express financial advisors, travel and entertainment, express card, hotel reservations, aexpress travel, express credit card, express cards, express financial, financial advisor"> <META NAME ="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="ABC offers individuals online access to its world-class Card, Financial, and Travel services, including financial advice, retirement planning, air and hotel reservations and more."> I have to extract the title, the contents in the meta tags KEYWORD and DESCRIPTION. Could anyone help me out with a shell script with AWK/SED to do the same? Thanks, Nishana

experimental: [code] awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1} /<Title>/,/<\/Title>/{ gsub("<Title>|</Title>", ""); title=$0 } /<META NAME ="KEYWORDS" CONTENT=/,/">/ { gsub(/META NAME ="KEYWORDS" CONTENT=|<|>|/,"") gsub(/<|>|"/,"") keywords=$0 } /<META NAME ="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT=/,/">/ { gsub(/<META NAME ="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT=|<|>|"/,"") description=$0 } END { print "Title : " title print "Keywords : " keywords print "Description: " description }' "file1" [/code]

edited: [code] awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1} /<Title>/,/<\/Title>/{ gsub("<Title>|</Title>", ""); title=$0 } /<META NAME ="KEYWORDS" CONTENT=/,/">/ { gsub(/META NAME ="KEYWORDS" CONTENT=|<|>|/,"") keywords=$0 } /<META NAME ="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT=/,/">/ { gsub(/<META NAME ="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT=|<|>|"/,"") description=$0 } END { print "Title : " title print "Keywords : " keywords print "Description: " description }' "file1" [/code]