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Old 05-22-2008
Remove html tags with bash

Hello,

is there a way to go through a file and remove certain html tags with bash? If it needs sed or awk, that'll do too.

The reason why I want this is, because I have a monitor script which generates a logfile in HTML and every time it generates a logfile, the tags are reproduced. The tags I want removed are </body> and </html> and are the last two lines in the HTML file.

I found similar topics, but none of them do what I need.

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...-line-sed.html

Thanks in advance for the help.
# 2  
Old 05-22-2008
Try this:

Code:
awk '/<\/body>/ || /<\/html>/{next}1' file

Regards
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# 3  
Old 05-22-2008
It kinda works, but somehow I have to forward the output to a new file.

Code:
awk '/<\/body>/ || /<\/html>/{next}1' file.html > file2.html

is there a way to make it return the output to the original file? (file.html)

When I use:

Code:
awk '/<\/body>/ || /<\/html>/{next}1' file.html > file.html

I get a blank file.

All the code before the </body> and </html> tags should remain in the file.

Thanks
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# 4  
Old 05-22-2008
You can't redirect the output to the inputfile. Redirect the output to a temporary file and move it to the original file, something like this:

Code:
awk '/<\/body>/ || /<\/html>/{next}1' file.html > file1.html

mv file1.html file.html

Regards
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# 5  
Old 05-22-2008
Just figured it out some minutes ago, same way like you wrote the code, before you replied. Thanks for all the help Smilie
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