Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:59:51 -0600 From: "Jack Stone" <antennex@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search & Replace Issue Message-ID: <BAY125-F2958F30952E7182B219A07CCC30@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20061224075632.GB97940@holestein.holy.cow>
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>From: Parv <parv@pair.com> >To: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> >CC: Jack Stone <antennex@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Search & Replace Issue >Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:56:32 -0500 > >in message <200612232230.58352.josh@tcbug.org>, >wrote Josh Paetzel thusly... > > > > On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:29, Jack Stone wrote: > > > Appreciate a tip on how to search & replace hundreds of *.htm > > > files: > > > >From this: > > > > > > <li><a href="http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html > > > To this: > > > <li><a href="tales/wouf.html > > > > > > > perl -p0777i -e 's/http:\/\/www.domain.com\///g' *.htm > >Is -0777 really necessary (causes whole file to be stored in >memory)? But that is not really the point of this reply. > >Above is a fine opportunity to use alternative delimiters (and to >restrict the matching (only to link URLs)) ... > > perl -pi -e 's!(?<=href=")\Qhttp://www.domain.com!!g' *.html > > >... in case of "hundreds of *.htm", use xargs(1) pipeline ... > > find dir-of-HTML-files -type f -name '*.html' -print0 \ > | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's!(?<=href=")\Qhttp://www.domain.com!!g' > > >Feel free to change Perl version with sed (the version of sed with >-i option[0]) one ... > > find ... \ > | ... sed -i -e 's,\(href="\)http://www\.domain\.com,\1,g' > > > [0] That makes this reply on point. > > > - Parv > Parv and all: Many thanks for these various tips and your time to make them! I usually use sed(1) myself, but for the life of me, I could not find a way to properly apply delimiters or syntax to get it to work. I was close, but no cigar! Too many slashes and commas I guess. Such a "tool" will indeed be a giant timesaver! Merry Xmas! All the best, Jack _________________________________________________________________ Get live scores and news about your team: Add the Live.com Football Page www.live.com/?addtemplate=football&icid=T001MSN30A0701
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