Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]batch processing html files

[Willie Wong]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > 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
>
> Somehow somewhere you can accomplish what you want in one line with a
> suitable combination of locate, find, grep, for, xargs, sed and awk

Right, as an addendum to my other solution, in the case where files
are spread across a directory tree, run the following in the base
directory of tree:

find ./ -name "*.html" -exec sed -i.bkup 's/VV, ppp-ppp/81, 51-67/' {} +

(yes, that's a '+' character at the end). You can, of course, tweak
the parameter to find to get finer control of exactly which files you
want modified; this is left as an exercise to the reader. 

W
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