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Old 01-11-2009
command to remove attribute of an html tag

Is there any shell command to clean an html tag of its attributes. For ex <p align ="center"> with <p>.

Thanks for your help!!
# 2  
Old 01-11-2009
Code:
#! /usr/bin/perl
$str='<p align ="centers">hello<q align ="center">';
$str=~s/(<.*?)( .*?>)/\1>/g;
print $str;

Code:
<p>hello<q>

# 3  
Old 01-11-2009
With sed:

Code:
sed 's/<p align ="center">/<p>/' file > newfile

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