Posted by Lauri Raittila on 06/18/05 13:50

in alt.html, wcb wrote:
> I am using Linux and Bluefish.
> I have a lot of long documents I want html-ize.

Learn perl.

> I am looking for some sort of little Linux utility
> where I could insert <br>'s into an existing file.

> Is there such a quick and dirty beastie for Linux?

sed
man sed

> Most utilities I see seem to be for Windows.

Because nobody needs any *extra* utilies for something that simple in
linux... there is some other tool as well, even more simple, but I don't
recall what it is called...

> I am looking for something that can do batch
> processing if possible, doing an entire folder
> at one shot.

sed -i 's/$/<br>/g;' *.html
(if I got it right...)

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