On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:37:44 +0100, Dave selby wrote: > I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag & put it in a string. > > ie > <title>specialist cards</title> > > I need the "specialist cards" in a variable $titlecontents I thought it > would be easy with sed > > sed -n '/<title>/,/<\/title>/p' > > But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail. > > Any ideas ? > > Dave
Try: sed 's#<title>\(.*\)</title>#\1#' Greetigs Andre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]