[SOLVED] sed for HTML

brainAcid · 06-05-2011, 09:31 AM

Hello! Thanks for dropping by!

How do I tell sed to replace abc
with the patterns found in file list.txt?

Search:

Code:

<a href="abc">

Replace:

Code:

<a href="./Content/audio/Evening Darshan 090606.mp3">

This is what I have been doing:

Code:

sed '/\".*\"/{/\".*\"{R list.txt 

d}}' audio.txt > out.txt

My result is incorrect. Because I cant figure out the search expression.

Thanks for the help!

sycamorex · 06-05-2011, 09:39 AM

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve. Can you show us the original file and how it's supposed to look like after the substitution?

brainAcid · 06-05-2011, 09:48 AM

Source:

Code:

<a href="./Content/audio/769-chapter-13-five-potent-forms-of-devotional-service-part-1-w-video">Chapter 13: Five Potent Forms of Devotional Service</a>

Result:

Code:

<a href="./Content/audio/Evening Darshan 090606.mp3">

grail · 06-05-2011, 10:24 AM

Well I would suggest that you will need to know what is the unique identifier of that line.
So if it was say the number 769, you could do:

Code:

sed -r -i.bak '/769/s/(audio/).*/\1Evening Darshan 090606.mp3">/' file