remove characters including | but only up to (not including) >

Question

in the pattern

<Blast>uce-506_drosophila_albomicans |uce506</BlastOutput_query-def>

I'm trying to remove |* up to (but not including) <

I tried (but doesn't achieve it)

sed 's/^|[^<]*//g' dataset2.fasta.xml >dataset2_2.fasta.xml

Answer 1

Single caret ^ means "start at the beginning of the line." Remove it:

sed 's/|[^<]*//g'