Modifying HTML files in a directory

casperl · 05-11-2007, 08:57 AM

I want to modify all html files in a directory (recursively) in the following way:

1. Find starting body tag (<body>)
2. Just after that insert my custom html tags (e.g. Hello World)

So my aim is just inserting "Hello World" at the top of the page.

How can i do this? Which command line tools (awk, grep..) should i use? And can you give me some starting point or the command i need to run?

Thanks.

theNbomr · 05-11-2007, 09:18 AM

I'll take a shot...

Code:

find /yourDirTree  -name "*.html" -exec sed -i 's/<BODY.*>/<body><p>Hello World<\/p>/ig' {} \;

--- rod.

zaichik · 05-11-2007, 09:45 AM

Or, if you don't want to replace the <body> tag (for example, if you had <body color="black"> or similar):

Code:

find path/to/dir/ -name *.html -exec sed -i 's/\(<body.*>\)/\1\
<p>Hello, world<\/p>/' {} \;

Note that the line break after "\1\" is intentional, to put the Hello, world on its own line.

casperl · 05-11-2007, 03:18 PM

Thanks. It worked perfectly