Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:01:29 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Scott Sipe <cscotts@mindspring.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Howto insert string. (Was: Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.) Message-ID: <20060807010129.GA5237@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <A90BBE5F-0E41-4922-BCD8-6E1C7114FFCA@mindspring.com> References: <20060806221015.GA1039@thought.org> <44D66BD2.8050305@thingy.com> <20060806224732.GA1255@thought.org> <A90BBE5F-0E41-4922-BCD8-6E1C7114FFCA@mindspring.com>
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote:
>
> On Aug 6, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > Thanks much! I *did* learn that with just FS, no need "END".
> > Maybe you can help me figure out what I'm trying to do because
> > I'm wedged!!
> >
> > I've got 80 or so html/php files. Most do have
> >
> > <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF">
> >
> > but a whole slew do not/are missing the BG color code.
> > So is there some scripto-magic way of finding out which fles are
> > missing the above string? I know how, using an ed/ex script to
> > insert this string.
> >
> > My hacker brain seems to be on strike!
> >
> > gary
>
> Not 100% sure this is what you're wanting, but you can just do
> something like:
>
> grep "myregex" * | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'
>
> This will print out the first column (ie, whatever comes before the
> first colon).
>
> if the options are either "<BODY>" or "<BODY BGCOLOLR="#FFFFFF">" I
> guess you could do something like:
>
> grep "<BODY" * | grep -v BGCOLOR | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'
>
> to get the files that have a body line sans BGCOLOR (you might need
> to account for case in the tags also)
>
> Scott
Thanks, Scott. I didn't know that "-F 'char' would reset the
field separator. I'll save this to my AWK howto.
gary
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