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Old 03-18-2009
sky_rivers sky_rivers is offline
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The following uses regular expression to remove any unlisted characters (including ">") and seems to be more predictable.
HTML Code:
find . -name "*.html" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i s/\(<meta name[a-zA-Z \=\"\,\.\0-8\&\;\@-]*\).*/\1 \/>/