Replace HTML tags with newline using awk or sed

Question

I have a large file with NO line feeds or carriage returns. The file came from HTML and I have stripped away all of the tags except the that I want to convert to a newline character(/n). What is a quick and easy way to do this using either AWK or SED? I suppose that AWKSED is also an option.

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

sed 's/<[^>]*>/\n/g' file

This means: replace all text starting with < , followed by an unspecified number of characters that are not > , and that ends with > , with a newline character.