Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:34:14 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070515152444.7949B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20070514210933.1024A16A478@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:34:52 -0700 Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:09:07PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > On May 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >This is for those of us who appreciate ASCII or straight > > > ISO_8859-15 rather than marked up files. I have slapped together > > > a crude C program that does scotch (or *cleanse*) text of > > > <B></B> and so on. Still... is there some standalone converter > > > that gets rids of markup more elegantly? Something where i > > > can say > > > > > > % cmd file_1.html ... file_N.html and output file_1.text ... > > > file_N.text? > > > > Perhaps: > > > > lynx -dump file1.html ... > file.text > > > > ...? > > Hm, maybe Ineed Bill Campbell's -force_html switch. > > Yes, seems that way. USing just -dump got most of them, but > using the -force_html caught all. Need to script something to > reformat, but the worst of it's done! Also, if using Mozilla (so, I would assume, Firefox) the 'Save Page As' dialog offers a picklist for 'Files of Type' that includes 'Text Files'. This does a pretty decent job of producing text from HTML files, and is quicker than firing up lynx (or links) if you're already viewing a page. Cheers, Ian
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