HXPRUNE(1)

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✨ hxprune — the HTML-XML-utils glow-up 💅

okay bestie, welcome to hxprune(1), part of the HTML-XML-utils fam 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

hxprune — literally just: remove marked elements from an HTML file 🧹✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hxprune [ -c class ] [ -x ] [ file ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 hxprune removes specially marked elements from an HTML file — and when I say removes, I mean the element, its content, AND all its children, gone, no trace, not me ghosting them 💀

by default it goes after elements that have a class attribute of "exclude". and the way it figures that out? the class attribute gets parsed as a whitespace-separated list of words, and if one of those words is "exclude", that element does NOT get copied to the output. periodt. 👑

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the following options are supported, and yes we're listing all of them, there are exactly two, iconic:

  • -c class — specify a different class than "exclude". want to prune something else? say less 💅
  • -x — force the output to be in XML-style. that means no short attributes, and empty elements get marked with a slash (/). very demure, very XML 🌈
ngl bestie, if you don't pass a file, it's giving "reads from standard input" energy. and those flags? copy them exactly as written, no improvising 🎀

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

wait, there's nothing here in the original... okay so just go read the rest of the HTML-XML-utils manpages yourself, iykyk 😭

and that's a wrap, my love 💖 this was hxprune from the HTML-XML-utils, version 7.x, dated 10 Jul 2011 — old but gold, fr fr ✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

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