sed command extract contents withing body tag of html

Fond_of_Opensource · 06-04-2007, 06:38 AM

hi all,

what is the sed command syntax to extract the html body tag contents? I have a html file file.html. I want to only extract the text between the <body> and </body> tag. What is the sed command for doing this,

Thankx.

bathory · 06-04-2007, 06:47 AM

From sed examples try:

Code:

sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba'

Fond_of_Opensource · 06-04-2007, 07:00 AM

hi Bathory,

I don't want all the tags eliminated. I want to print whatever there within the tags <body> and </body>.

druuna · 06-04-2007, 07:25 AM

Hi,

Something like this:

sed -n '/<body>/,/<\/body>/p' file.html

Only downside to this is that if there are any words before the <body> and after </body> (on the same line), these words will also be printed. But this can be solved as follows:

sed -n '/<body>/,/<\/body>/p' file.html | sed -e '1s/.*<body>/<body>/' -e '$s/<\/body>.*/<\/body>/'

Or, if you also want to remove the body tag:

sed -n '/<body>/,/<\/body>/p' file.html | sed -e '1s/.*<body>//' -e '$s/<\/body>.*//'

Hope this helps.

Fond_of_Opensource · 06-04-2007, 07:34 AM

thankx very much druuna, it solved my problem.

pixellany · 06-04-2007, 07:38 AM

A more knowledgeable member has rendered my attempted help as irrelevant...

druuna · 06-04-2007, 07:55 AM

@Fond_of_Opensource: You're welcome

@pixellany: Sorry about that