remove text between delimiters, multiple times on

Question

I need to remove text between the delimiters "<" and ">", but there are multiple instances of these on each line of my text file.

For example, I want to turn this:

person 1, person 2<[e-mail]>, person 3<[e-mail]>, person 4<[e-mail]>`

Into this:

person 1, person 2, person 3, person 4  

I've tried to use a few things, including sed:

sed -e 's/<.*>//' filename.csv

but this removes everything between the first < and the last > giving the result person 1, person 2.

Answer 1

you can use a negated character class in your regex:

sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' filename.csv

Answer 2

If you want to join the dark side, Perl lets you specify non-greedy wildcards with ?:

perl -pe 's/<.*?>//g' filename.csv