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I don't know if this can be done with simple Unix commands to implement it. Because it looks a bit complicated.

I have a text that looks like the following.

<p id="mt">Iusto, numquam dolore aut voluptates delectus</p> <p id="mt">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet</p> <p id="mt">Facere vitae sapiente necessitatibus</p> <p id="mt">Tempora modi rem reprehenderit quam eos. Provident, animi ab ducimus dolorem</p>

Each line has different character lengths, and some content is too long and requires omission of excess portions.

For example, limit the <p id="mt">...</p> content to 20 characters and delete them if you go beyond that. It looks like this.

<p id="mt">Iusto, numquam dolor</p> <p id="mt">Lorem ipsum dolor si</p> <p id="mt">Facere vitae sapient</p> <p id="mt">Tempora modi rem rep</p>
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Using sed:

sed -E 's/^(<p id="mt">.{20}).*(<\/p>$)/\1\2/' infile
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  • This will print the </p> twice in case the length is in the range 16...19. Commented Sep 27, 2020 at 20:56
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command

awk -F ">" '{print $2}' filename| awk -F "<" '{print "<p id=\"mt\">"substr($1,1,20)"</p>"}'

output

<p id="mt">Iusto, numquam dolor</p> <p id="mt">Lorem ipsum dolor si</p> <p id="mt">Facere vitae sapient</p> <p id="mt">Tempora modi rem rep</p> Python m=open('filename','r') for g in m: e=g.split('>')[1].split('<')[0][0:20] print "<p id=\"mt\"> {0}</p>".format(e)

output

<p id="mt"> Iusto, numquam dolor</p> <p id="mt"> Lorem ipsum dolor si</p> <p id="mt"> Facere vitae sapient</p> <p id="mt"> Tempora modi rem rep</p>
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