how to parse html text file in terminal?

Question

I have a text file that even after removing all the html tags still contains some html codes of apostrophes and other punctuations example :

  It&#039;s  // It's

my question is how to change all of them?

and I'm using a bash script under linux to get the html file

clt60 · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-02 23:55:54Z

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Alternatively, if you got lynx use it as:

lynx -stdin -dump < file.html

The above will remove the HTML tags too, for example from this file.html

<i>It&#039;s</i>
&lt;<b>&amp;</b>&#62;

prints

   It's <&>

answered Dec 2, 2017 at 23:55

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John1024 · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-02 21:49:25Z

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$ echo 'It&#039;s' | python -c 'import xmllib,sys; print(xmllib.XMLParser().translate_references(sys.stdin.read()))'
It's

$ echo 'It&#039;s' | perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_);'
It's

answered Dec 2, 2017 at 21:31

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