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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [ask]how does sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' works? Post 302458530 by Scrutinizer on Friday 1st of October 2010 03:32:29 AM
Old 10-01-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by 14th
I found this command, sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g', will return the content of a line with pattern something like this, <tag1>content</tag1>..

How does this works?
What does sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' actually do?
What if I wanted to get content of a line with pattern something like this, [tag2]content[/tag2]?
thanks..
The first sentence removes all the tags so the content remains.
Code:
$ echo "<tag1>content</tag1>" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
content

To do the same with [] you could do this:
Code:
$ echo "[tag2]content[/tag1]" | sed 's/\[[^]]*\]//g'
content

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