Bash script to convert from HTML entities to characters

Question

I\'m looking for a way to turn this:

hello < world

to this:

hello < world

I could use sed, but

Answer 1

An alternative is to pipe through a web browser -- such as:

echo '!' | w3m -dump -T text/html

This worked great for me in cygwin, where downloading and installing distributions are difficult.

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