Stripping HTML tags from document with grep...

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 11:15 -0400, Myrle Francis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I have the task of making sure a file got updated each day (an html file).
> The Contents shown below: (when opened in a web browser)
> 
> Performance Summary
> Updated 4/4/2008 10:37:08 AM
> Data as of 4/4/2008 10:36:20 AM
> 
> when I grep for Updated in this file.. ( grep 'Updated'
> ./DMK_MTD_Performance.htm) I get the whole line,  html code and all.
> 
> Can someone suggest a way to strip the html part and give me the lines as
> displayed above? Is grep the way to go, or should I be looking at another
> tool?

elinks -dump DMK_MTD_Performance.html | grep Updated


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