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11-11-2009

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String editing using sed? awk?

1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:

Problem Statement for project:

When an account is created on the CS Unix network, a
public html directory is created in the account's home directory. A default web page is put into that directory.

Some users replace or edit the default page, while others do not. We would like to add a new link from the department web page to another page which lists all students who have changed their web page from the default. We don't want to track these things by hand, and we want the list to be automatically updated every night at 3:00AM.

You are to write a script that will
1. find all users who are students and who have changed their web page from the default that
was provided when their account was created,
2. generate an HTML file named student web pages.html which contains a nicely formatted list of links to each student web page that you found,
3. copy that file into a directory specified on the command line, and

4. make sure that anyone can read it.

My Problem:

I have edited the output of the above find command to a file that has lines that look like this:

<a href="http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~name">Link</a>
<a href="http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~name2">Link</a>
<a href="http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~nameasdas">Link</a>

What I need it to do now is take that line and turn it into this:

<a href="http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~name">name</a>
<a href="http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~name2">name2</a>
<a href="http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~nameasdas">nameasdas</a>

I have tried using sed and just can't figure it out. Can anyone help?

2. Relevant commands, code, scripts, algorithms:

Sed ?? awk??

3. The attempts at a solution (include all code and scripts):

4. Complete Name of School (University), City (State), Country, Name of Professor, and Course Number (Link to Course):

Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX
USA
Dr. Pyeatt
CS 3352

Thanks for the help.

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