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)