Posted by WCB on 06/19/05 15:02

Lauri Raittila wrote:

> 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...)

But it still lacks recursive abilities.
I played with SED a bit. It still seems
to need a script to walk a tree.


Generally, it seems I need a shell script and a command
script whether it be SED or Perl, or even Rexx.


for
some command
done

I need to figure this out for the present
directory, all subdirecties, and all
files in them.

I could set up the command as a script
and call that.

So its back to Bash manuals....

Ohhh this would be so easy if Perl had a -R switch.
Or Sed or Awk.
--
When I shake my killfile I can hear them buzzing.

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