On Wednesday 30 April 2008 12:00:13 Johann Schmitz wrote: > This should work (untested!): > > for x in $(find <YOUR-DIR-WITH-HTML-FILE> -name "*.htm*"); do > ~ tmp=$(mktemp); > > ~ sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' $x > $tmp && mv $tmp $x; > > ~ rm $tmp; > done > > Matthew R. Lee schrieb: > | I have a folder full of .html files and I need to go through and replace > | in each and every one of them a couple of bits of info. I know I can do > | this using the following from the command line: > | sed 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' file.html > newfile.html | mv newfile.html > | file.html > | Problem is I need to do this on nearly 200 files. I assume it could be > | done with a script, but I have zero experience in writing scripts. I've > | looked through a few how-to's but haven't found anything I understand > | sofar. I want to learn how to script, but my Prof want's this done > | yesterday as the associated paper has just been published. > | Cheers > | Matt > > -- > Johann Schmitz > http://www.j-schmitz.net
Thanks, job done. All the variations suggested worked, I tried them all :-) I love the command line, I really need to learn how to make the most of it. Saludos from Chile Matt -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
