Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to upgrade a whole bunch of pages on my site to a new design.

I thought one way of doing it would be to enclose the content in special comment tags and then use some form of script to wrap the new html around it. Like this:

<!-- content start -->
<h1>Blah blah blah</h1>
yada yada yada
<!-- content end -->

Say I put everything that goes above <!-- content start --> into text1 and everything below <!-- content end --> into text2

Is there a way to have a script go through the directory and make those changes to the html files? That is, delete everything above <!-- content start --> and replace it with text1 and delete everything below <!-- content end --> and replace it with text2?

I have the skill to think of the idea, just not to execute it.

Any suggestions would be great!

I'd rather not use includes...the content's already there, I just want to replace the stuff around it for static speed.

Why not?

If it weren't you couldn't include it by any means.

That's what includes are for.

Hi,

if you just want to replace everything before <!-- content start..> and
everything after <!-- content end...> with the text from two files, this
should work:

Code:

for file in *html
do
  cat text1 && sed -n '/<!-- content start/,/<!-- content end/p' ${file} && cat text2 >> tmp
  mv tmp ${file}
done

It takes the names of all *.html files in your directory. Prepend text1,
prints the content of $file between your two markes and append text2.
The output is written to tmp which is then renamed to $file.

HTH Chris

Thanks Chris.

Just tested it out, putting test text "The above stuff" in text1 and "The below stuff" in text2.

When I checked the test file, the only text it now contained was "The below stuff"

The stuff above and between (and including) the two comments was gone

yupp, my error, forgot the {..}.
You have to enclose the three commands before ">>" in braces:

Code:

{cat text1 && sed -n '/<!-- content start/,/<!-- content end/p' ${file} && cat text2} >> tmp

This should work.

HTH Chris