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Replace specific HTML tags using sed and regular expression

Posted on by Hans-Henry Jakobsen

In this post I would like to replace all <embed> HTML tags in a HTML file with a <strong> tag.

# sed -e 's/<embed[^>]*>/<strong>/g' filename.html > newfile.html

And if you would like to remove the <embed> tag altogether

# sed -e 's/<embed[^>]*>//g' filename.html > newfile.html

To remove all HTML tags in a file

# sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' filename.html > newfile.html

The result file newfile.html is now without any < HTML tags >.