I can never find an easy way to do this on the rare occasions that I need to do this.
maybe I can rediscover the different ways and keep track of them here.
mac dos 2 unix - Google Search
Convert end-of-line characters (revisited) - Mac OS X Hints
ASCII text converstion between UNIX, Macintosh, MS-DOS
beautiful soup - Google Search
Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
Beautiful Soup documentation
python html to rst - Google Search
HTML to Text renderer
html2text: THE ASCIINATOR (aka html2txt)
reStructuredText