[SOLVED] line numbers to html in mixed content

dmafcoi · 08-21-2010, 12:51 AM

I have huge files, wherein some lines begin with a number. I want to convert that number to a bookmark link

Sample file:

Code:

C.S. Lewis (I think) wrote:
1 If war is ever
2 legal, then peace
3 is sometimes
4 sinful.
Text without numbers too

I need the numbers to be <a name tags where the id is the letter x and the number that is at the beginning of the line:

Code:

C.S. Lewis (I think) wrote:
<a name="x1">1</a> If war is ever
<a name="x2">2</a> legal, then peace
<a name="x3">3</a> is sometimes
<a name="x4">4</a> sinful.
Text without numbers too

I'm not sure why I can't get this, but after hours of 3 line long seds and endless while read lines, grepping ^[[:digits:]]s I can't figure it out. Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated... the files are lengthy, and there are bunches of them to go through.

Thanks

druuna · 08-21-2010, 02:49 AM

Hi,

Is this what you are looking for:

sed -i.bak 's/^\([0-9][0-9]*\)\( .*\)/<a name="x\1">\1<\/a>\2/' infile

Makes changes in place and saves original with a .bak extension.

Hope this helps.

dmafcoi · 08-21-2010, 11:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druuna

...Hope this helps.

It does, thank you very much

druuna · 08-21-2010, 11:40 AM

You're welcome