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Loop through a set of HTML files and append text at top and bottom of each file

Answer 1

A:

If by shell-scripting, you mean bash:

The command is echo, not @echo. The @ form is specific to Makefiles for not displaying command itself. Moreover @echo off doesn't exist in bash and is useless.
The value of i variable is accessed with $i.

mouviciel 2010-04-06 14:30:25

Answer 2

+1 A:

s="<html>\n<LINK href='style.css' rel=stylesheet type='text/css'>"
for file in *.htm *.html
do
 sed -i.bak "1i $s" "$file"
done

or just one line of sed

 sed -i.bak "1i $s" *.html *.htm

if you are doing it on Windows, you can download the windows version of sed from GNU

ghostdog74 2010-04-06 14:31:05

Answer 3

+1 A:

In Unix, there is the cat command for what you want to do. Create a file "header.txt" and a file "footer.txt". Then do:

for i in *.htm; do cat header.txt $i footer.txt > new-$i; done

After you checked for correctness, or inside the same for loop if you wish, you can replace the old files:

for i in *.htm; do mv new-$i $i; done

ypnos 2010-04-06 14:50:57

Simple awesome! Could you point me to the right source which will make me a a shell script hacker like you?! Thanks again!

ThinkCode 2010-04-06 16:40:23

I found that the FLOSS manual at http://en.flossmanuals.net/gnulinux is quite a comprehensive source. while it starts from about zero, all important concepts of the UNIX command line are covered. Also available as PDF: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CommandLineIntro/FM_16Apr09.pdf

ypnos 2010-04-06 19:37:45

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