Perl or Bash Mass File Edit

redneon · 10-14-2004, 10:26 AM

I'm wanting a program which will add a single line to the beginning of every .html recursively in a directory (and every directory below it). I'm assuming the best way to do this would be to use bash or perl but I'm not sure where to start. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Darrell

jim mcnamara · 10-14-2004, 11:43 AM

Code:

for file in `find  /path/to/ -name \*.html -print`
do
       awk ' BEGIN { print "this is my new line" }
               { print $0 } ' $file > tmp.tmp
       mv tmp.tmp $file
done

try this on JUNK files first, then proceed from there