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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove string inside html tag <a> Post 302631627 by georgi58 on Friday 27th of April 2012 02:45:56 PM
Old 04-27-2012
works!

Code:
sed -e 's/<a href[^>]*>//g' -e 's/<\/a>//' input_file

this works like a charm.

now, would please tell me how to execute your command in safe way for all few hundred files and actually replace the string in there.
 

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