How to remove XML tags from Unix command line?

Question

I am grepping an XML File, which gives me output like this:

data
more data
...

Note, this is a fl

Answer 1

Use html2text command-line tool, which converts html into plain text.

Alternatively you may try ex-way:

ex -s +'%s/<[^>].\{-}>//ge' +%p +q! file.txt

or:

cat file.txt | ex -s +'%s/<[^>].\{-}>//ge' +%p +q! /dev/stdin