Using AWK/Grep/Bash to extract data from HTML

Question

I\'m trying to make a Bash script to extract results from an HTML page. I achieved to get the content of the page with Curl, but the next step is parsing the output, which is pr

Answer 1

Just use awk:

awk -F '<[^>]+>' '
    found { sub(/^[[:space:]]*/,";"); print title $0; found=0 }
    /
/ { title=$2 }
    /
/  { found=1 }
' file
ITEM 1;ITEM DESCRIPTION 1
ITEM 2;ITEM DESCRIPTION 2