Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:26:55 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files? Message-ID: <20070514022655.GA1304@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070515152444.7949B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20070514210933.1024A16A478@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070515152444.7949B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:34:14PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > 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. Oh sure; I've been saving html in text, ascii/8859-1 for years. But what I've got, and there are more saved **somewhere**, are files that are saved by default in markup. I have a slew of these on different boxen and have been moving then to one place. Problem is: how to de-html the bunch. I'm too lazy to write something that would automate what Can be automated--markup like "&foo;" are problematic. So probably the easiest way would be to create a dehtml.sh script that is just a wrapper around lynx. I don't think I'm the only hacker who wants just-plain-ascii, so this might mak a good project for somebody who's new to C or perl. That's my two pennies' worth! gary > > Cheers, Ian > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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