Strip html tags using php as bash one-liner

Alec Jacobson

The following takes input from standard in and strips all html tags

php -R 'echo strip_tags($argn)."\n";'

So this example

echo "<cage who knows why='angelou'>bird</cage>" | php -R 'echo strip_tags($argn)."\n";'

produces

bird

Source: This actually comes straight from the man page for php.