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

[Ross Jordan]

Since most of the given solutions were untested, they most likely
failed due to slight typos. Francis's would've most likely hung
because it is a filter -- i.e. it need to be run ./filter < input > output.
Anyways, I give you a tested (albeit quickly) solution:

cd /path/to/html/files/
for file in `ls *.html`;
do
 mv $file $file.bak
 sed 's/<a href="http:\/\/.*\/\(.*\)"/<a href="./\1"/g' < $file.bak > $file
done

A quick analysis of diff index.html index.html.bak suggests the script
worked as intended. A link to a directory will become ./
i.e. <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/something/"something> -> <a href="./"something>

-Ross

> 
> 
> Well, the good news is that that was a great response.  Thanks.
> 
> The bad news is they all failed.  Viz.:
>  Dan Cardamore
>  Name "main::F" used only once: possible typo at ./change-o.pl line 12.
> 
> Tom Goulet:
> bash: file: No such file or directory
> mv: tmpfile: No such file or directory
> 
> Francis's hung* and I had to ^C out of it.
> 
> Dave O'Neil's had syntax errors.
> 
> Adrian's hung*.
> 
> I haven't tried Skud's yet.  Part of this may be a fsck'd up Perl config. 
> More on that later.
> 
> To test them all I mkdird a dir with three files respectively containing
> the lines:
> 
> qwerqw<a href="http://www.spam.com/fud.html">Read the fud page!</a>qwerqw
> <a href="http://www.spam.com/bar.html">Read the bar pages!</a>qwerqw
> qwerqw<a href="http://www.spam.com/foo.html">Read the foo page!</a>
> 
> What I want is to change each of those to e.g. ./fud.html .  In the real
> case,  the URL is unknown. 
> 
> Thanks, Dave.
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> Well, the good news is that that was a great response.  Thanks.
> 
> The bad news is they all failed.  Viz.:
>  Dan Cardamore
>  Name "main::F" used only once: possible typo at ./change-o.pl line 12.
> 
> Tom Goulet:
> bash: file: No such file or directory
> mv: tmpfile: No such file or directory
> 
> Francis's hung* and I had to ^C out of it.
> 
> Dave O'Neil's had syntax errors.
> 
> Adrian's hung*.
> 
> I haven't tried Skud's yet.  Part of this may be a fsck'd up Perl config. 
> More on that later.
> 
> To test them all I mkdird a dir with three files respectively containing
> the lines:
> 
> qwerqw<a href="http://www.spam.com/fud.html">Read the fud page!</a>qwerqw
> <a href="http://www.spam.com/bar.html">Read the bar pages!</a>qwerqw
> qwerqw<a href="http://www.spam.com/foo.html">Read the foo page!</a>
> 
> What I want is to change each of those to e.g. ./fud.html .  In the real
> case,  the URL is unknown. 
> 
> Thanks, Dave.
>  ____________________________________
> *No off-colour jokes, please.  ;)
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