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Old 04-26-2012
removing the words with symbols in a file in unix
I have file like below

Code:
Hi iam author <br>joseph</br> in france.
I live in my home <br></br> but no food.
I will play footbal <br></br> but i wont play cricket.
I will read all the books <br>all fiction stories</br> i hate horror stories.

I want output like below

Code:
Hi iam author <br>joseph</br> in france.
I live in my home but no food.
I will play footbal but i wont play cricket.
I will read all the books <br>all fiction stories</br> i hate horror stories.

I want to delete the tag following tag "<br></br>" in all the line.Thanks in advance please help me.
Last edited by methyl; 04-26-2012 at 05:41 PM.. Reason: please use code tags
# 2  
Old 04-26-2012
How about:
Code:
sed 's:\<br\>\<\/br\>::g' input.file > output.file

Or you can try:
Code:
sed -i -e 's:\<br\>\<\/br\>::g' input.file

This User Gave Thanks to brianjb For This Post:
methyl
# 3  
Old 04-26-2012
Try:
Code:
sed 's|<br></br>||g' infile

# 4  
Old 04-27-2012
Thanks all it works. Thank you very much.
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