On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> - I need to clean up a bunch of html files from <SCRIPT>
> </SCRIPT> tags. I tried sed -e s/\<SCRIPT.*SCRIPT\>// file.html
> > file.html2, but it only deletes the first line, not the whole
> > script. The /m modifier doesn't seem to work. How do I go
> > about it.
>
> - Is it possible to overwrite the original file, not redirect
> to an alterate file?
>
> - How do I process a bunch of files at once? sed -e s/foo/bar/
> *.html > *html2 doesn't seem to do it. Or need it be something
> like for $i in * do....? I can't seem to get this to work
> either.
Hi,
You could use the shell scripts 'overwrite' and 'replace' in
Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX programming environment, Chapter 5,
Section 5.5, pages 154-155.
Best,
Raghavendra.
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