cat 1.html | grep "<title>" > title.txt
This grep statement is not working.
Please tell the best way to grab the title of a page using grep or sed.
Thanks.
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">
<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">
$ awk -vRS="</title>" '/<title>/{gsub(/.*<title>|\n+/,"");print;exit}' file
Extract Title of a html file using grep - Stack Overflow
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