-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This should work (untested!):
for x in $(find <YOUR-DIR-WITH-HTML-FILE> -name "*.htm*"); do ~ tmp=$(mktemp); ~ sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x > $tmp && mv $tmp $x; ~ rm $tmp; done Matthew R. Lee schrieb: | I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace in | each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do this | using the following from the command line: | sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html > newfile.html | mv newfile.html | file.html | Problem is I need to do this on nearly 200 files. I assume it could be done | with a script, but I have zero experience in writing scripts. I've looked | through a few how-to's but haven't found anything I understand sofar. I want | to learn how to script, but my Prof want's this done yesterday as the | associated paper has just been published. | Cheers | Matt - -- Johann Schmitz http://www.j-schmitz.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkgYl40ACgkQZsUt7MqpQk0B4ACfdSv5T9h3kd45vseh3vKg5vun ga4AoKL6nnAiobGsWIwHgND7DChxUNy6 =ESvU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list