substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. Oliver
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? use sed. It is very powerful for this sort of thing. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. sed -e s/two/one/g f1.html f2.html Don't redirect to your input file! You will lose it. If you need it to be the same name, just rename afterwards. The s/two/one/g substitutes two for one globally. Read sed's man page for more info. Oliver -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |---*| | That's the problem with going from a soldier to a | | politician: you actually have to sit down and listen to | | people who six months ago you would've just shot. | | --President John Sheridan, Babylon 5| \--/
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. sed -e s/one.domain.com/two.domain.com/ originalfile newfile Andrew Never include a comment that will help | Andrew Ivanov someone else understand your code. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] If they understand it, they don't | ICQ: 12402354 need you. |
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/15/99 at 12:39 PM, Oliver Thuns [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? i.e. I want to change every http://one.domain.com in http://two.domain.com in some files and files in subdirs. In using sed to do this, you may want to expand the string being sought by sed so that you don't inadvertently change other instances of one to two. If you do want to search for http://one.domain; and change it to http://two.domain; then you need to escape the slashes, since they also serve as control characters for sed. (The colon may too. I don't recall offhand, as my experience is limited.) This would be done as follows: sed s/http:\/\/one.domain/http:\/\/two.domain/g file file1 The \ in front of each / tells sed to treat the / as a regular character, instead of a control character. Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you call a bus of lawyers headed over a cliff, with two empty seats? A waste of space. ---
