I have a html file called myfile. If I simply put "cat myfile.html" in UNIX, it shows all the html tags. But I want to extract only text part. Same problem happens in "type" command in MS-DOS. I know you can do it by opening it in Internet Explorer, then "save as text", then open it again. But I need to do this from UNIX, as I have thousands of html files and have no time to convert them to text files one by one. I went through many books, but can't find a way. I would really appreciate your help.

You can use lynx and the -dump switch, eg: $ lynx -dump http://www.mysite.com/page.html > page.txt You can do this with local files too: $ lynx -dump /path/to/page.html > page.txt If you have lots of files the you may want to write a little script: #!/bin/bash ls -1 *.html | while read page do lynx -dump $page > $page.txt done