On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 14:10 -0700, Richard Kurth wrote:
> I have around 6000 text files and I need to change the first line on every
> one of them.
>
> The first line is the title of the article and I need it look like this
> <title>the name of the article</title>
>
> every file has the first line and the it starts the article on the second
> line
>
> The files are in many directory under one main directory
> like this
>
> top directory
> fashion-school
> Dogs
> DentalAssistant
> etc..........
>
> I need a script that will loop through each directory look at each file
> extract the first line and replace it with the example above.
> I have figured out how to pull the first line into an array but I don't no
> where to go from there to look in each directory and the write the data back
> at the top.
>
> $f = file('GENERAL HISTORY OF DOGS.txt');
> $a = '<title>' . $f[0] . '</title>';
> echo $a;
>
>
>
Rather than use PHP for this I would look at using the find and sed
tools to edit the files.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
