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Replace specific HTML tags using sed and regular expression

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 […]

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Linux

vim search and replace text

Different ways of replacing text etc. Replace every occurrence of pattern1 (pat1) with pat2 :g/pat1/s//pat2/g Replace every occurence of pattern1 (pat1) with a newline :g/pat1/s//\r/g In practice this inserts a newline after every occurence of pat1.

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