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)