[CS-FSLUG] I need a quick way to edit quite a few html documents

[Josiah Ritchie]

Just a foot note, but if I were you, I'd get all your htm and html
files on the same extension for sanity sake next time you have to do
this. You can use the same sorts of tricks to make all the links
inside the files go to html and then rename the files themselves to be
html.

JSR/

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:25 PM,  <davidm at hisfeet.net> wrote:
> "ls g*.htm?" does display a file list, but only of those files htm files
> that end with an "l", so I guess that "?" means any letter that is there,
> but insists that there be some letter there. escaping the period didn't
> help, but that may be because I made too many changes before I tried it.
>
> Finaly: when I tried:"for file in i*.htm; do sed -i
> 's/index.html/index2.htm/g' $file; done" It worked for all the files that
> started with "i" and ended  with ".htm"   Then: "for file in *.htm; do sed
> -i 's/index.html/index2.htm/g' $file; done" Got the rest of them. except for
> the ones that end with "l", or something completely different.
>
> Thanks this looks like an excellent tool if I can just learn how to use it
> effectively.
>
> Dave
>
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:31:02 -0500, Robert Wohlfarth wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:58 PM,  wrote:
>>
>>> for file in g*.htm?; do sed -i 's/index.php/index2.htm/g' $file;
>>> done
>>
>>
>>
>>> I didn't try it as root - didn't know if it was safe to do so.
>>>  What am I missing? Or how have I messed up the command?
>>
>> Some things that I would try...
>> 1. Does "ls g*.htm?" display a file list? This will tell you if the
>> problem is in the glob or the sed command.
>> 2. In the sed expression, escape the
>> period: s/index.php/index2.htm/g. Theoretically, the period matches
>> any character. The original, un-escaped pattern matches "index-php" or
>> "indexAphp". In practice, it probably doesn't matter and I'm just
>> being paranoid.
>> 3. Put quotation marks around $file: sed -i
>> 's/index.php/index2.htm/g' "$file". This protects files that might
>> have spaces in their name.
>
>
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