From: Parv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Jack Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Search & Replace Issue
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:56:32 -0500
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
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
Parv and all:
Many thanks for these various tips and your time to make them!
I usually use sed(1) myself, but for the life of me, I could not find a way
to properly apply delimiters or syntax to get it to work. I was close, but
no cigar! Too many slashes and commas I guess.
Such a "tool" will indeed be a giant timesaver!
Merry Xmas!
All the best,
Jack
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