What does ^> mean in a grep pattern?

Question

What does this command do?

grep "<[^>]*>" inuux.xml

What is searching for?

Answer 1

It can be explained like this:

<         # A literal "<" character
[^>/]*    # Anything that isn't a ">" or a "/", zero or more times
>         # Followed by a literal ">" character

Presumably, this is for matching XML/HTML tags. It certainly isn't the best regex in the world, but it's quick, dirty, and probably works.