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

[Tim Young]

Heh heh. That probably was the story,  translated by the minds of 
small kids jabbering to themselves and re-telling the story as they 
understood it.

The URL gave me a "not found" message when I clicked on it.  Because 
I was interested enough, I dug around on your page to find: 
http://www.hisfeet.net/download/ebook_b.exe

     - Tim

On 6/9/2011 11:09 PM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
> 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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