[H-GEN] regex brian fade

[Russell Stuart]

On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 14:16 +1000, mick wrote:
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> I'm trying to extract occurrances of <tag k="(KEY)" from an openstreetmap XML file where KEY is a random number of characters a-z, A-Z 0-9 or :(colon). I'm sure I've done it before but can't remember how. Below is the closest I can get
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> grep -o -e "<tag k=\"[a-z]" ~/Documents/gis/OSM-AU/new_south_wales.osm

grep -o -e '<tag k="[a-z]*"' ~/Documents/gis/OSM-AU/new_south_wales.osm