% wget -q -O - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget-1.8.1/html_mono/wget.html | html2text | head -15 ****** GNU Wget ****** ***** The noninteractive downloading utility ***** ***** Updated for Wget 1.8.1, December 2001 ***** by Hrvoje [EMAIL PROTECTED]'{c} and the developers =============================================================================== ****** Table of Contents ****** * Overview * Invoking o URL Format o Option Syntax o Basic Startup Options o Logging and Input File Options o Download Options o Directory Options o HTTP Options
Of course, sounds like you are using windows; no idea if any of this will work there. Jim On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Jeff Holicky wrote: > Probably insane question but - is there a way with wget to download the > output (as text) and NOT the HTML code? > > I have a site I want and they are BOLDING the first few letters - and I just > want the name without the html tags. So a straight text output would > suffice. > thanks > > > e.g. with explorer - I bring up the documentation for wget and then save as > "text" - it then saves a text file of the html - but no formatting no html > code etc etc > > GNU Wget ManualGNU Wget > The noninteractive downloading utility > Updated for Wget 1.8.1, December 2001 > by Hrvoje [EMAIL PROTECTED]'{c} and the developers > > > Table of Contents > Overview > Invoking > URL Format > Option Syntax > Basic Startup Options > > >