need a linux function

[indiandomain]

guys i have this txt file with html codes

<a href='http://www.abc.com'><b>house</b> of the dead</a>,
<br><a href='http://www.sd.com'>green <b>house</b> effect</a>,

i need a linux command that will remove the html tags and arrange the txt file like this

house of the dead
green house effect

ive tried the grep command but it didnt work.

anyone has a solution?

[dcrombie]

Something like this?

perl -pi.old -e 's/<[^>]+>//g' inputfile.txt

[coopster]

... and in PHP

file_put_contents [php.net]('stripped_tags.txt', strip_tags [php.net](file_get_contents [php.net]('strip_tags.txt')));