Extract log file

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Published on 2010-06-18T04:55:00Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 5:03 UTC
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Hi,

xxxxxxxxmessageyyyyyyymessagexxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxmessagezzzzzzzmessagexxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxmessageaaaaaaamessagexxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxmessageyyyyyyymessagexxxxxxxxxx

The above is my log file I need to extract the phrase which is inside the message tag and I need to save the distinct messages in a file in the above example I need to save zzzzzzz and aaaaaaa to a file.

What are the unix commands I need to use.

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