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Top Forums Programming Minor editing of mass HTML files Post 302597618 by agama on Friday 10th of February 2012 10:18:06 PM
Old 02-10-2012
I guess I'd have gone with a simple shell script letting find, and sed do the hard work:


Code:
find /project/html -name "*html" | while read filename
do
    if [[ ! -f $filename- ]]    # if a backup exists, don't do anything
    then
        mv $filename $filename-     # make backup
        sed '/embed_music/d; s/Paragraph/Absatz/;' $filename- >$filename # make changes
    fi
done

Makes a backup of the original file (I like that safety net) and then makes the changes. If the backup file exists, no action is taken -- prevents overlaying your original file should something not work right and the script is run again.


Python certainly will work, but this I think is easiest.
 

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