Removing text between two static strings

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi everyone,
I need to replace the text between two strings (html tags) and I'm having trouble figuring out how to do so. I can display the text with sed but I'm not having any luck deleting the text between the two strings.

My file looks like this:

<oths>test</oths><div class="text">1928 oakland (1)</div></td>
<oths>tes2t</oths><div class="text">1932 oakland (01)</div></td>

I need the output to look like this:

<oths>test</oths><div class="text"></div></td>
<oths>test2</oths><div class="text"></div></td>

So how do I find and remove any text between <div class="text"> and </div>? Thanks in advance for assistance with my issue!

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 sed -e 's/\(<div\sclass\=\"text\">\)[^<]*\(<\/div>\)/\1\2/g' abc.txt

HTH,
PL

3

Thanks daptal. Your example was very helpful and got me going in the right direction. Here's what worked for me:

sed -e 's/\(\<div class="text"\>\)[^<]*\(<\/div>\)/\1\2/g' file.txt

Thanks again for your help.