It should be possible to do this in a line of bash, this is my current start point - curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>||g' edit - for refer

It should be possible to do this in a line of bash, this is my current start point - curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>||g' edit - for reference, this is being done in an osx 10.7.5 terminal, so ymmv getting somewhereish, I only have a slight understanding of regex to be honest :) curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>|-|g' | sed -e 's/-------/\'$'\n/g' ... curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>|-|g' | sed 's|------------|-|g' | sed -e 's/-------/\'$'\n/g'