Hello, I have about 3400 files in a tree structure (about 80% are html files).


1. I need to modify every html file to remove <p> style and old things like font attribute and add another style.
2. I need to change the root of all links that are in the html. e.g. change /old/path/ to /new/path at the href attribute.
3. I need to remove some links. e.g. links that points to google.com need to be removed, so should be only "as google said".

Is there any software that can do this for me?
Is it possible to make a script?

I have no knowledge about scripting and for this work, I thing this could be the fast way... anybody wants to help me?

Thanks !

Interesting problem. If you had fewer tasks to accomplish, I would ordinarily recommend spending the time to write a couple of complex sed commands. Given the size of the HTML store, and the number of modifications you want to make, it's probably time to write a program leveraging an HTML Parser library.

What languages do you know?

Perl has the HTML::Parser module. http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/HTML-Parser-3.69/Parser.pm

C has libxml2 with an HTMLParser module. http://laurentparenteau.com/blog/200...xml2-tutorial/

Java has the Swing HTML parser. http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc...les/bookmarks/

Python also has an HTMLParser. http://docs.python.org/library/htmlparser.html

Hello jhwilliams, thanks for answer !

I'll take a look to sed and see if I can, if not I'll check maybe something in Java, or C#.

If anybody wants to give me examples or show me "the light" I will appreciate it

If it is the text of the html files that you want, consider the html2txt command. There is also xmlto and xsltproc you could try to process the html files and transform them to text.