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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to change first line of files in directory Post 302653447 by Skrynesaver on Saturday 9th of June 2012 02:38:23 AM
Old 06-09-2012
Code:
for i in * ; do
  first=$(head -1 $i)
  head=$(echo $head | sed 's/ /_/')
  if [ "X$head" -eq "X" ] ; then
    head="blank"
  fi
  while [ -e $head ];do
    head="$head.1"
  done
  echo "mv $i $head" # if this looks good on the first pass, then uncomment the next line and try again
  #mv $i $head
done


Last edited by Skrynesaver; 06-11-2012 at 08:53 AM..
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TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)							 1							  TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)

tidy::head - Returns atidyNodeobject starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
tidyNode tidy::head (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style tidyNode tidy_get_head (tidy $object) Returns a tidyNode object starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree. PARAMETERS
o $object - The Tidy object. RETURN VALUES
Returns the tidyNode object. EXAMPLES
Example #1 tidy_get_head(3) example <?php $html = ' <html> <head> <title>test</title> </head> <body> <p>paragraph</p> </body> </html>'; $tidy = tidy_parse_string($html); $head = $tidy->head(); echo $head->value; ?> The above example will output: <head> <title>test</title> </head> NOTES
Note This function is only available with Zend Engine 2 (PHP >= 5.0.0). SEE ALSO
tidy.body(3), tidy.html(3). PHP Documentation Group TIDY_GET_HEAD(3)
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