needed - Find & Replace on multiple HTML files

Capt'n Midnight · 10-05-2005 3:16pm #1

We've a coupla hundred html files with absolute hyperlinks.

Anyone know an app that will allow them to be changed preferably from the command line ?

cormy · 10-05-2005 3:44pm

If the files are on a unix box ....

$ for I in `find /htmlfilesroot -name *.html`    ## Use the 'find' criteria you need
> do
> cat $I | sed 's/<old path>/<new path>/g' > tempfile
> cp tempfile $I
> done

Might want to back up the html files first though ;-)

[edit=CM] - undeleted - it's nice to see the alternatives [/edit]

aidan_walsh · 10-05-2005 8:44pm

From the developers of TextPad... Wild Edit!

Capt'n Midnight · 11-05-2005 9:32am

aidan_walsh wrote:

Wild Edit![/url]

Thanks
CrippleWare - €31 if the file is more than 10KB (they are mostly small.)
/methinks I'll have a look for SED for windows

de8o · 11-05-2005 10:05am

I use a tool called filescan. Freeware. However I can't find it on the web now. I can send you a copy if you want.

de8o · 11-05-2005 10:08am

found filescan

Filescan

jesus_thats_gre · 11-05-2005 12:48pm

dreamweaver does it..

Capt'n Midnight · 11-05-2005 4:27pm

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html - decided to use sed instead

You end up with this sort of thing (not debuged)
for /R %%i in (*.htm?) do sed -r s£file:///X:/folder%%20name£/£ %%i %%i.BAK

Walk through folders
two %'s because in a batch file - NB. a space is now %%20
£ - because the symbol after s is the delimiter and Find "£" filename returned nothing

needed - Find & Replace on multiple HTML files

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