sed question

ckoniecny · 11-11-2005, 09:17 AM

I'm trying to substitue HTML tags for XML tags.

For example:

Code:

sed 's/<HTML>/<article>/g' index.htm > tmp.xml

That works, but when I try to substitute the closing tag </HTML>, it errors out.

Code:

sed 's/</HTML>/</article>/g' index.htm > tmp.xml

Any ideas?

druuna · 11-11-2005, 09:24 AM

Hi,

The slash in /html and /article need to be escaped, or you need to use another seperator in sed.

sed 's/<\/HTML>/<\/article>/g' index.htm > tmp.xml
or
sed 's%</HTML>%</article>%g' index.htm > tmp.xml

Take the one you like best.

Hope this helps.

oneandoneis2 · 11-11-2005, 09:25 AM

You need to add a / to tell sed to treat the HTML code as a literal /

It looks like you're saying replace "<" with HTML>

Either use s/<//HTML>/<//article>/g or s@</HTML>@</article>@g - the first tells it to treat the / as a / and not a divider, the second uses a different divider, which should also work.

**edit: Too slow!

ckoniecny · 11-11-2005, 09:31 AM

Awesome, both ways helped me for the both of you. Thanks!