[PLUG] sed regex to strip html code

[mikeraz at patch.com]

since the angle brackets are part of an expression enclosed in single quotes 
you don't need to escape them.

Try just sed 's/<.*>//g' INFILE  > OUTFILE

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 10:57:21AM -0700, Rich Shepard typed:
>   I'm trying to put together a one-line sed program that will strip html
> codes from a text file and leave the text behind. I've not yet succeeded.
> I've tried:  sed 's/\<.*\>//g' <filename> > <output_filename>
> and it extracts angle brackets but does not remove them from the file.
> Instead, it puts the extracted text into the output file.

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