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Asked: 2026-05-17T17:50:56+00:00

cat 1.html | grep <title> > title.txt This grep statement is not working. Please

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cat 1.html | grep "<title>" > title.txt

This grep statement is not working.

Please tell the best way to grab the title of a page using grep or sed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    you can use awk. This works even for multiline

    $ cat file

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>

    <title>Extract Title of a html file

using grep - Stack Overflow</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/all.css?v=9ea1a272f146">

$ awk -vRS="</title>" '/<title>/{gsub(/.*<title>|\n+/,"");print;exit}' file
Extract Title of a html file using grep - Stack Overflow
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