sed: use regular expression to get rid of part

Question

For the text ABC<img src="test"></a>, I'm hoping to get rid of the <img ...> part, in other words, I want the result to be displayed as: ABC</a>. I tried several patterns, but none of them worked.

echo 'ABC<img src="test"></a>'|sed -e "s/<img src=\".*>//g"
ABC

I don't know whether I should escape < or >, When I did, I got the following result:

echo 'ABC<img src="test"></a>'|sed -e "s/\<img src=\".*\>//g"
ABC<>

Can anyone clarify these results and give me a satisfying one?

Mandatory link: [don't parse html with regex](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/7552) — glenn jackman, Oct 09 '14 at 15:20
@MarkZar so did my solution work to you? Otherwise I will delete it. — fedorqui, Oct 10 '14 at 09:55
@fedorqui Oh, sorry. I thought I had accepted it. I've no idea I forgot it or it was due to network problem. Anyway, thank you. It worked very well. — Searene, Oct 10 '14 at 11:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '14 at 15:19

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Just indicate that you want to remove from <img + any set of characters until a new > is found.

sed "s/<img[^>]*>//g"

Test

$ sed "s/<img[^>]*>//g" <<< 'ABC<img src="test"></a>'
ABC</a>

answered Oct 09 '14 at 15:19

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