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Old 05-17-2012
Removing html tags
I store different variance of the below in an xml file. and apparently, xml has an issue loading up data like this because it contains html tags. i would like to preserve this data as it is, but unfortunately, xml says i cant.

so i have to strip out all the html tags.

the examples i found online tend to strip out the tags AND also the content, which i dont want. i need the content. i just want to get rid of the HTML tags.

below is the code:


Code:
echo "OK: strings of [ <bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number= ] was found in the response
from the URL [ http://sky.net:80/schock/google/pinging ]. 
Actual response received = [ <bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number=fafafafafaf /> ]." | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'

Response:

 OK: strings of [  ].

# 2  
Old 05-17-2012
Not sure what you want for your desired output, but this will get rid of the "<>" tags:

Code:
echo "OK: strings of [ <bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number= ] was found in the response from the URL [ http://sky.net:80/schock/google/pinging ]. Actual response received = [ <bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number=fafafafafaf /> ]." | sed "s|[<|>]||g"

OK: strings of [ bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number= ] was found in the response from the URL [ http://sky.net:80/schock/google/pinging ]. Actual response received = [ bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number=fafafafafaf / ].

Could you post your expected result?
# 3  
Old 05-17-2012
Could you show what the output would need to look like?
# 4  
Old 05-17-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
Not sure what you want for your desired output, but this will get rid of the "<>" tags:

Code:
echo "OK: strings of [ <bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number= ] was found in the response from the URL [ http://sky.net:80/schock/google/pinging ]. Actual response received = [ <bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number=fafafafafaf /> ]." | sed "s|[<|>]||g"

OK: strings of [ bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number= ] was found in the response from the URL [ http://sky.net:80/schock/google/pinging ]. Actual response received = [ bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number=fafafafafaf / ].

Could you post your expected result?
im gonna try to this to see if it works. cant post any output because the output wont be the same. i have hundreds of data similar to this. and they're not all similar. i just want to keep the html tags from being a nuisance.

microsoft excel cant load up an xml file if it has these html tags in them.
# 5  
Old 05-17-2012
We meant what output would need to look like with your input sample.
# 6  
Old 05-17-2012
i would like the output to look similar to this:


Code:
OK: strings of [ bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number= ] was found in the response from the URL [ http://sky.net:80/schock/google/pinging ]. Actual response received = [ bye xmlns=http://check.google.com/schema/2 serial-number=fafafafafaf / ].

# 7  
Old 05-17-2012
So you just want to delete the <> characters?

Code:
tr -d '<>' < inputfile > outputfile
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