Shup
Simple HTML parser in shell.
- Requires
- POSIX shell
- sed
Installation
To install shup you can edit the Makefile to match your local setup (shup is installed into the /usr/local/bin by default).
Afterwards enter the following command to install shup:
sudo make installTo uninstall shup, just run:
sudo make uninstallUsage
USAGE: shup [OPTIONS] ["FILTER1" "FILTER2" ...]
-h show this help
-v show version
-r raw: last filter tag will not be shown
-t text: no tags will be shown
-o "string" specify output indentation
FILTER FORMAT: "<tagname>" or "<tagname>[<search string>]"
the search string should be present in the tag line
EXAMPLE
to match all div tags
shup "div"
to match div tags with some string
shup "div[Qynugf]"
will match : <div class="Qynugf">
The string could be present anywhere inside the tags body <.>
Patterns can be specified in the string using shell patterns
shup "div[Qy?*[!h]f]"
When no filters applied, shup will only format the HTMLExample
curl -s "www.gnu.org" | shup -r "body" "div[inner]" "ul" "li[[pP]hilo]" "a"