[Solved] Parsing countries file

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All
I would like to take contries for this file http://www.textfixer.com/resources/dropdowns/country-dropdown-iso-html.txt and save it in another file with the following structure .
Afghanistan, �land Islands , Albania, Algeria, American Samoa

Can anyone help me to do this ?

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try this..

awk -F "[<>]" '/<option/{ print $3}' ORS="," file
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Try..

awk -F "[<>]" '/<option/ { printf "%s,", $3 }' file
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Thanks your solutions are working !