Question

I am trying to figure out how to use bash to print a certain line in a few XML files. These files are located in several folders. The line I need to print is an exact XML tag called
<name></name>.

My objectives:

• search through folders
• print folder location on one line
• print file name on second line

• print what is between

I only need the name and not the full path and I do need it to add to a .txt file called whatever. Ive tried with bash but Im stuck on this one.

EDIT:
I also forgot to mention that this is a piece being added to some other shell script so Im unsure if I can get grep to work within it.

Answer 1

Using grep and a regular expression recursively on a directory shows you the file names (including the path) with the tag in it:

grep -r "<name>.*</name>" /path/to/directory