Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 18:46:27 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files? Message-ID: <464A6273.8080705@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070514022655.GA1304@thought.org> References: <20070514210933.1024A16A478@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070515152444.7949B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <20070514022655.GA1304@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote: > 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 >> > If you don't want formatting and the number of tags is trivial, the solution is fairly simple in Perl (less than 150 lines, if even that). -Garrett
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