Question

I have a webpage which contains the followsing code snippet containg links to videos:

<a href="video.php?video=sampel1.mov">
<a href="video.php?video=anothersample.mov">
<a href="video.php?video=yetanothersample.mov">

I want to use sed and regular expression to extract the video names, eg:

sampel1.mov 
anothersample.mov 
yetanothersample.mov

so I can use wget to download them.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Give this a try:

sed -n 's/.*video=\([^"]*\)">/\1/p' inputfile

With GNU grep:

grep -Po '(?<=video=).*?(?=">)' inputfile

Pipe either of those commands through xargs:

command | xargs wget ...