I have looked a lot to find the solution but could not find one. I know how to remove all tags using sed but I need to remove only those HTML tags that are empty or have just tabs or spaces in them and also remove tags explicitly. For example:
<p></p> or <p> </p>
I used the following command to remove all the HTML tags, it works properly but I don't want to remove all tags.
sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' myfile.html
same command is used here. Kindly help me out.
You could use the below sed command to remove only the empty tags.
sed 's/<[^\/][^<>]*> *<\/[^<>]*>//g' file
Through Perl,
perl -pe 's/<([^<>]*)>\s*<\/\1>//g' file
</>, some tags are written like this <img src="someimage" /> . will this command still hold for these tags?
sed -r 's/<[^\/][^<>]*> *<\/?[^<>]*\/?>//g' file
perl -0 -i -p -e "s/(<[[:space:]]*([a-zA-Z]*)[^>]*>)([[:space:]]*)(<\/\2>)([[:space:]]*)//g" "$path"sed -r 's/<([a-zA-Z0-9]+)>[ \s\t]*<\/\1>//g' file
