removing html tags via parameter expansion

rev66 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008

Hi all-

I have a variable that contains a web page:

echo $STUFF

<html> <head> <title>my page</title></head> <body> blah blah etc..

Can I use the shell's parameter expansion abilities to remove just the tags?
I thought that FIXHTML=${STUFF//<*>/} might do it, but it didn't seem to work.

Do I need to escape the < and > or something like that?

Thanks!!

-Rev66

Tytalus · #2 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008

depending on exact content, this should mostly work:

Code:

#  echo $STUFF | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
  my page  blah blah

rev66 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-14-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tytalus

depending on exact content, this should mostly work:

Code:

#  echo $STUFF | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
  my page  blah blah

I had considered doing that exact thing, but I'd really like to avoid the additional process if possible by doing it in the shell...

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