I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have a line in a
lot of HTML files that I'd like to remove. The line is:
<hr style="border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 32, 159); margin:
0rem;">
I'm testing the sed command to remove it on just one file. When it
works, I'll run it against *.html. My command is:
sed -i -s 's/\s*\<hr\ \ style.*\>//g' history.html
Unfortunately, the replacement doesn't remove the line but rather leaves
me with:
<;">
The leading spaces, angle brackets and some punctuation (but not all) is
left behind. Moreover, If I try to remove the EOL by adding \n after the
\>, the replace fails (and yes, the closing bracket is the last
character on the line).
I get the same behaviour under both Bullseye and Bookworm so I assume
this is how sed is supposed to operate. However, when I try the same
regex in Kate, it works.
Is this a long-standing bug in sed or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks
