Thank you both Perderabo and cjcox. I can't get to my terminal now, but I will try both approaches. I'm sure I'll learn something with both. Thanks again and I'll report back with results.
I've been using sed to help with reformatting some html content into latex slides using the beamer class. Since I'm new to sed, I've been reading a lot about it but I'm stuck on this one problem.
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