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XMLStarlet – a command-line utility to deal with XML documents

CAVEAT: “xmlstarlet sel --template --value-of XPATH” lists all values on a separate new line — but the last entry comes without a trailing new-line character. If you want to pipe xmlstarlet’s output into “while read e; do ...; done“, the last entry won’t get read. xmlstarlet has another option for this: “--nl” (it means: “finish each printed match with a new line”). So if you write your command line like this: “xmlstarlet sel --template --value-of XPATH --nl“, everything will be fine.
It took me a while to find out, that the last entry does not got processed, and then how to fix this.

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