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

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

I don't remember that story, Tim, unless the "truck" was really a Renault
car, and the chainsaw was some willing helpers with machetes.  Now *that
story* (along with several more) can be found here:
http://hisfeet.net/dindex.htm/ebook_b.exe (That was in the days before I
knew anything about Linux). Guess I'll need to bust it out of that exe
file so others can reach it conveniently (someday :)

By the way, the gospel deprived village where that took place now has a
thriving community of believers.

davem


> Sed is one of those "amazing" unix tools.  I have been using it for
> years and years (15+) and still do not think I am effective with it.
> :)  There are tons of things that I once knew how to do with it that
> I no longer can...  But I can still do a lot more with it than a lot
> of people can.  :)  It is the equivalent of a blow-torch or a
> chainsaw.  Some people do a lot more with it than others...
>
> (If I remember the story correctly, Dave, to whom I am talking, once
> kept an engine from falling out of a truck by using a chain-saw
> creatively.  Putting "sed" into his hands may be interesting...
> Looking forward to seeing what he does with it.)
>
>      - Tim
>
> On 6/9/2011 7:25 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
>>
>>
>
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