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Old 03-14-2008
removing html tags via parameter expansion
Hi all-

I have a variable that contains a web page:

echo $STUFF

<html> <head> <title>my page</title></head> <body> blah blah etc..

Can I use the shell's parameter expansion abilities to remove just the tags?
I thought that FIXHTML=${STUFF//<*>/} might do it, but it didn't seem to work.

Do I need to escape the < and > or something like that?

Thanks!!

-Rev66
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Old 03-14-2008
depending on exact content, this should mostly work:

Code:
#  echo $STUFF | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
  my page  blah blah

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Old 03-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tytalus
depending on exact content, this should mostly work:

Code:
#  echo $STUFF | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
  my page  blah blah

I had considered doing that exact thing, but I'd really like to avoid the additional process if possible by doing it in the shell...
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