Posted by Lauri Raittila on 06/19/05 15:23

in alt.html, WCB wrote:
> 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.

man find

sed -i 's/$/<br>/g;' `find . -type f -iname \*.html`
or
find . -type f -iname \*.html -exec sed -i 's/$/<br>/g;' {} \;

Quite likely I got em wrong...

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

Which you of course didn'tm mention orginally.

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