Replace a word with string from another file

Tonda · #1 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

Hi,

this belongs a little to my other post [1] but only at the starting point.

With

Code:

find -name "*.htm*"

i got a list like this:

Code:

./1999/01/file1.html
./1999/01/file2.html
./1999/02/file1.html
./2000/04/file1.html
./2000/04/file2.html
./2000/04/file3.html
./2000/file1.html
./2000/file2.html
./file1.html
./file2.html
./file3.html

Then i wrote a awk script who gives me this output:

Code:

./1999 | 1999| 1999 | author | mail/01 | 01 | 01 | author | mail/<title> | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./1999 | 1999| 1999 | author | mail/ 01 | 01 | 01 | author | mail/<title>|  file2.html | file2.html | author | mail
./2000  | 2000| 2000 | author | mail/<title> | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./2000 | 2000| 2000 | author | mail/<title> | file2.html | file2.html | author | mail
./<title> | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./<title> | file2.html | file2.html | author | mail

Now i need to replace the "<title>"-part with the real content between the <title>-tag of this file.

I fetch the content with another script:

Code:

for i in `find -name "*.htm*"`
do
    awk -F'<title>' -v RS='</title>' 'RT{print $NF}' $i
done

and put the output in a file "titles.txt":

Sitetitle 1
Sitetitle 2
Sitetitle 3
...

So, now i have two files who have the same number of lines. How i could replace <title> with Sitetitle 1 ?

It this the right way with two files or its better to fetch the content of <title>-tag in the first script?

Thanks in advance
Stefano

[1] Insert Tabs / Indent text

rubin · #2 (**permalink**) 02-25-2009

It's not too clear what's your expected final output ..., anyway try to modify the following code:

Code:

$ cat file_1
./1999 | 1999| 1999 | author | mail/01 | 01 | 01 | author | mail/<title> | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./1999 | 1999| 1999 | author | mail/ 01 | 01 | 01 | author | mail/<title>|  file2.html | file2.html | author | mail
./2000  | 2000| 2000 | author | mail/<title> | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./2000 | 2000| 2000 | author | mail/<title> | file2.html | file2.html | author | mail
./<title> | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./<title> | file2.html | file2.html | author | mail

Code:

$ cat file_2
Sitetitle 1
Sitetitle 2
Sitetitle 3
Sitetitle 4
Sitetitle 5
Sitetitle 6

Code:

 awk ' { if( ( getline rec < "file_2" ) > 0 ) sub(/<title>/,rec) } 1' file_1

Output:

Code:

./1999 | 1999| 1999 | author | mail/01 | 01 | 01 | author | mail/Sitetitle 1 | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./1999 | 1999| 1999 | author | mail/ 01 | 01 | 01 | author | mail/Sitetitle 2|  file2.html | file2.html | author | mail
./2000  | 2000| 2000 | author | mail/Sitetitle 3 | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./2000 | 2000| 2000 | author | mail/Sitetitle 4  | file2.html | file2.html | author | mail
./Sitetitle 5 | file1.html | file1.html | author | mail
./Sitetitle 6 | file2.html | file2.html | author | mail

Tonda · #3 (**permalink**) 02-26-2009

Hi,
thats exactly what i want to get.

Thanks rubin

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