I'm wondering what's the best way to combine multiple .html files (spread across many folders) into one single html file. If someone could create a simple bash command that would be fantastic. (This is a workaround so I can use firebug's command line API to effectively search an entire site for html selector combinations. As far as I know, firebug can only search on one page.)
Any help is greatly appreciated for this stymied front-end designer.
cat file1.html file2.html file3.html > newfile.html
Edit This may be easier
find . -name="*.html" | xargs cat >> ../newfile.html
Note that newfile.html is pushed up from the current directory so it is not cat'ed into itself.
Well, if you're not concerned about the resulting file being correct, cat seems like the easiest way to go:
cat file1.html file2.html file3.html > result.html
But of course each of those files with have an <html> tag at the top and a closing one at the bottom, so it won't be a valid HTML file. Firefox will probably load it, but I don't know how it will display it... perhaps only the first one?
for file in `ls *.html`; do cat "$file" >> output.html; done
You cold always use grep to search something in a group of files instead of merging all of the files and then searching that one file.
grep <string you are looking for> <folder containing all of files> -r