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# 8  
Old 10-10-2012
Show the script
# 9  
Old 10-10-2012
Code:
                ##Fix copyright incorrect in .html files
		for htmlfile in $(find $DIRECTORY -type f -name \*.html); do
			TFILE="/tmp/$directoryname.$$"
			
			FROM='©'
			TO='\&\#169\;'
			sed "s/$FROM/$TO/g" "$htmlfile" > $TFILE && mv $TFILE "$htmlfile"
		done

that is the original code for the for statement
# 10  
Old 10-10-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by graphicsman
can you explain to me what you are doing??

tr = Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters
-d = same as --no-dereference --preserve=link
No, -d means delete. See man tr.

Quote:
but Im lost here:
'[\200-\377]'
All ascii characters between 128 and 255.

Quote:
and here:
< inputfile > outputfile
Read from file inputfile, write to file outputfile.

...You do have a backup, right? You're not just running random code from the internet on precious, irreplaceable input files?
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# 11  
Old 10-10-2012
Like I said, your terminal and your file may not agree on what the copyright symbol is. You'll have to find out the exact sequence of bytes a copyright symbol is in the file( try hexdump -C filename ) then put that into sed, escaped so it can understand it. Your version of sed might be able to use hexadecimal characters like \x..
# 12  
Old 10-10-2012
yes I do have a backup. Im testing this script out trying to correct a large number of .html files that someone created wrong in regards to the footer. I was told by a friend it would be a good time to learn Linux and bash script so Im trying and reading a lot. I do see a lot of confusion with the complexity of what to do in ubuntu with shell VS bash.
# 13  
Old 10-10-2012
bash is a shell, so yes, some confusion Smilie
# 14  
Old 10-11-2012
can you please try this
Code:
tr -d '\194' < input >> output

 is assigned of value 194
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-11-2012 at 07:00 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thanks
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