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Answer 1

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You can use xml_grep from the XML::Twig Perl package:

xml_grep --text_only title 1.html

Alex Howansky 2010-09-30 17:19:55

Answer 2

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 grep "<title>" /path/to/html.html

Works fine for me. Are you sure 1.html is in your current working directory? pwd to check.

chigley 2010-09-30 17:24:30

it returns <title> This is title </title> , but I want only the actual title of the page.

Krishna 2010-09-30 17:26:11

Answer 3

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sed -n 's/<title>\(.*\)<\/title>/\1/Ip' 1.html

uses the combination of -n and p to only print matches

Dave 2010-09-30 17:46:37

Answer 4

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you can use awk. This works even for multiline

$ cat file

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt;
<html>
<head>

    <title>Extract Title of a html file

using grep - Stack Overflow</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/all.css?v=9ea1a272f146"&gt;

$ awk -vRS="</title>" '/<title>/{gsub(/.*<title>|\n+/,"");print;exit}' file
Extract Title of a html file using grep - Stack Overflow

ghostdog74 2010-09-30 23:25:45

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