Remove/replace html tags in bash

Question

I have a file with lines that contain:

 Some Text: More Text 

I want to remove the html tags and r

Answer 1

One way using GNU sed:

sed -e 's/<\/b>/-/g' -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' file.txt

Example:

echo "
 Some Text: More Text 
" | sed -e 's/<\/b>/-/g' -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'

Result:

 Some Text:- More Text