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Asked: 2026-05-25T13:53:14+00:00

i’m just learning bash scripting, i was trying to scrape some data out of

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i’m just learning bash scripting, i was trying to scrape some data out of a site, mostly wikitionary. This is what I’m trying on the command line right now but it is not returning any result

wget -qO- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robust | egrep '<ol>{[a-zA-Z]*[0-9]*}*</ol>'

What i’m trying is to get the data between the tags, just want them to be displayed. Can you please help me find out what I’m doing wrong ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    you need to send output to stdout:

    wget -q http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robust -q -O - | ...

    to get all <ol> tags with grep you can do:

    wget -q http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robust -O - | tr '\n' ' ' | grep -o '<ol>.*</ol>'
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