Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:36:47 +0100 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: well, blew it... sed or perl q again. Message-ID: <20081231043647.GB13851@marge.bs.l> In-Reply-To: <20081231014802.GB46220@thought.org> References: <20081230193111.GA32641@thought.org> <20081230211633.GA24525@marge.bs.l> <20081231014802.GB46220@thought.org>
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Hi Gary, Am Dienstag, 30. Dez 2008, 17:48:02 -0800 schrieb Gary Kline: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:16:33PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > > > Am Dienstag, 30. Dez 2008, 11:31:14 -0800 schrieb Gary Kline: > > > The problem is that there are many, _many_ embedded > > > "<A HREF="http://whatever>; Site</A> in my hundreds, or > > > thousands, or files. I only want to delete the > > > "http://<junkfoo.com>" lines, _not_ the other Href links. > > > > > > sed or perl? > > > > Ruby. Untested: > > > > $ ruby -i.bak -pe 'next if ~/href="([^"]*)"/i and $1 == "http://example.com"' somefile.html > > > > Probably you want to do something more sophisticated. > > no errors, but the new.htm is == new.htm.bak; in other words, > it looks like a partial match on just "http" fails. Don't > know why. i'm pretty sure the entire "<A HREF="http://foobar.com">; xxx </A>" > would do it. This is not FreeBSD-specific, though. I still wonder why you rely on lines just containing %r{^<A.*>.*</A>$} . Maybe you're doing a quick'n'dirty solution but I'm quite sure you won't get along with a one-liner. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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