11-13-2008
sed script to generate hyperlinks refuses to work
Hi All,
I'm new to the forum and not a programmer, but I'm writing a bash script to preprocess definitions of technical terms by inserting hyperlinks pointing to other pages in the glossary before the pages are posted to our server, using a standard naming convention for the pages. The script searches through a set of text (all the definitions) and insert hyperlinks when it finds specific terms (the terms). The script also generates a cleaned-up version of the terms for the hyperlink, getting rid of uppercase, non-valid characters for filenames, etc. So the idea is to replace the term in the original file by the term plus a hyperlink to the page for that term.
The individual comands used to work (I swear) when I first wrote it, but in refining it I've busted it and struggled for two days now trying to get it to work, including step by step, or as a script...can't figure out how I've broken it. I hoping someone wil spot the error, grateful for any help you can provide, it doesn't have to be efficient, just work.
Symptom is only the last hyperlink in the terms in included, instead of all of them
Here's the (non-working) script as is, mainly just search and replace, grateful for any help you can provide....
#!/bin/bash
sh --version
debug=":"
debug="echo"
SEQ=/usr/bin/seq
#tr -s '\n' < definitions.txt > temp1.txt
#tr -s ' ' < temp1.txt > definitions.txt
sed -i "s/\./yyyyy/g" definitions.txt
sed -i "s/(/ ( /g" definitions.txt
sed -i "s/\//zzzzz/g" definitions.txt
#sed -i "s/(/( /g" definitions.txt
sed -i "s/,/ , /g" definitions.txt
sed -i "s/)/ ) /g" definitions.txt
tr ' ' '_' < definitions.txt > definitions_underscore
tr -s '\n' < terms > temp2
tr -s ' ' < temp2 > terms
tr A-Z a-z < terms > terms_lowercase
tr -d ' =;:`"<>,./?!@#$%^&(){}[]+~-' < terms_lowercase > terms_url
sed -i "s/\./yyyyy/g" terms
sed -i "s/\//zzzzz/g" terms
tr ' ' '_' < terms > terms_search
a=( $( cat terms_search ) )
b=( $( cat terms_url ) )
$debug " Number of elements in array is $(( ${#a[@]} ))"
for i in $($SEQ 0 $((${#a[@]} - 1)))
do
echo ${a[$i]}
echo ${b[$i]}
sed -i "s/_"${a[$i]}"_/\_\<a\_href="\"${b[$i]}"\.php\"\>"${a[$i]}"\<\/a\> /g" definitions_underscore
done
sed -i "s/__(__/(/g" definitions_underscore.txt
sed -i "s/__,/,/g" definitions_underscore.txt
sed -i "s/__)/)/g" definitions_underscore.txt
sed -i "s/yyyyy/\./g" definitions_underscore.txt
sed -i "s/zzzzz/\//g" definitions_underscore.txt
sed -i "s/yyyyy/\./g" terms.txt
sed -i "s/_\./\./g" terms.txt
sed -i "s/ \./\./g" terms.txt
tr '_' ' ' < definitions_underscore > definitions_linked.html
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NAME
dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter
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