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Stripping HTML with Sed

Escape HTML characters

sed 's/&/\&amp;/g; s/</\&lt;/g; s/>/\&gt;/g; s/"/\&quot;/g; s/'"'"'/\&#39;/g'

Unescape HTML characters

sed 's/\&amp;/&/g; s/\&lt;/</g; s/&gt;/>/g; s/\&quot;/"/g;s/\&#39;/'"'"'/g'

Strip HTML tags

sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
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