[oclug] ...and speaking of awk...

[Kirrily Robert]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:55:11PM -0500, Adrian Chung wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:45:45PM -0500, Dave Edwards wrote:
> > Hey Gang,
> > 
> > I need to alter a directory worth of downloaded html files so that the
> > links reference only ./   "this directory."  But I can't wrap my head
> > around the re necessary to do this.  In very loose pseudo, it would be:
> > 
> > when, in any field, <a href="http://some.url/file.html"> is found, replace
> > that with <a href="./same-filename.html">
> 
> Try this:
> 
> perl -pi -e 's/http:\/\/some.url/\./g'

Perl accepts alternative regexp delimiters on m// and s///, as my own
and Dave O'Neill's examples showed.  So to avoid escaping all those
backslashes, just use something like:

s!http://blahblah!foo!
or
s{http://blahblah}{foo}


K.

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