NAME
unhtml - strip the HTML formatting from a document or the standard
input stream and display it to the standard output
SYNOPSIS
unhtml -version | [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
Parses text read from the standard input, or a file if a file name is
supplied, and removes any HTML formatting it finds. Prints the
resulting cleansed text to the standard output for easy redirection.
The version included with this man page has been improved to handle
comments and scripts.
OPTIONS
-version
Version. unhtml will display its version and exit.
EXAMPLES
This example simply scans a file called "index.html" and prints the
file to the standard output with the HTML formatting removed. The
standard output is redirected to a file called "index.txt" which, after
running, will contain the plain text of the .html file.
example% unhtml index.html > index.txt
BUGS
Currently, if the output is redirected to a file of the same name as
the input file, the result will be an empty file of the same name, but
this is really an idiosyncracy of the redirect operator, and cannot be
corrected in the program.
DEVELOPMENT
This document is Copyright (C) 1998 by Kevin Swan.
3 February 1998 UNHTML(1)