in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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
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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 -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
