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# 8  
Old 06-19-2008
This is a slice of what I am starting with.

Code:
<tr>
<td><a target="testFrame" href="somepath.html">InitialEnvironment Setup<HR></HR></a></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td><a target="testFrame" href="someotherpath.html">Create Entity<HR></HR></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a target="testFrame" href="anotherpath.html">Create Company<HR></HR></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a target="testFrame" href="yetanotherpath.html" >1.[1]0001_Creation_of_Custom_Lists_to.html<HR></HR></a></td>
</tr>

In the end, I need an output like

Code:
InitialEnvironment Setup
Create Entity
Create Company
Creation of Custom Lists to

No HTML, no numbers, no underscores.

My long term goal is to put all of this into a nice table with some other information. I am pretty sure I can get the rest figured out, I just need helping getting the the above extracted from the HTML.
# 9  
Old 06-19-2008
Try:
sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' file.html

edit:
This should work
grep href webfile.html|sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/[0-9]*_/ /g' -e 's/[0-9]..*\] //' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'
Last edited by NYankz; 06-19-2008 at 04:05 PM..
# 10  
Old 06-19-2008
I get this error when using either of those:

Code:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

I checked and the filename is fine. Do you know why I would get this error?
# 11  
Old 06-19-2008
not sure why, you should also be able to cat the file first to make sure it displays:

cat file.html |grep href | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e 's/[0-9]*_/ /g' -e 's/[0-9]..*\] //' -e 's/\(.*\)\..*/\1/'

I was bored at work and put your example into a tempfile and it worked when i ran the above statement.
# 12  
Old 06-19-2008
OK, then try this,

Code:
awk  'NF!=0{gsub(/\.|[0-9]+|html/,"");gsub(/\[\]/,"");gsub(/_/," ");$1=$1;print}'  RS="<[^<>]+>" filename > final.txt

Output,

Code:
InitialEnvironment Setup
Create Entity
Create Company
Creation of Custom Lists to

There are also dots and square brackets in your input that need to be taken care of. Modify the command if other characters need to be removed.

I'd suggest to redirect the output of the first command, plain, with no sub functions and other statements in it, into a temporary file first, then do all processing with the tool you're most comfortable with, sed, grep, awk..., of that temp file, when finished redirect the output, to a final .txt file.
Last edited by rubin; 06-19-2008 at 08:24 PM.. Reason: typo
# 13  
Old 06-23-2008
Thanks everyone for all of the help.

Rubin, when I try and run yours, I get this:

Code:
'[0-9]+' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

When I try and run NYankz's, I get this:

Code:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

I am doing all of this in windows, using gawk, sed, and grep.
# 14  
Old 06-23-2008
did you try putting in the full path for the file?
 
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