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Reputation: 3

sed - add text to variable

i have html code like this

<a href="/site/index.php/Something" title="Something">Something cool</a>, <a href="/site/index.php/Nice_Text" title="Nice Text">Nice Text</a>
some text
<a href="/site/index.php/Apple%27s_text" title="Apple's text">Apple's text</a>

and i need add dots (beginning) and .html's (end) to links to get this:

<a href="./site/index.php/Something.html" title="Something">Something cool</a>, <a href="./site/index.php/Nice_Text.html" title="Nice Text">Nice Text</a>
some text
<a href="./site/index.php/Apple%27s_text.html" title="Apple's text">Apple's text</a>

I was playing with sed, but i have no idea, how to work with changed urls. Something like look for "/site/index.php/ and first occurrence of " and before that " put .html (or after variable between).

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 197

Answers (2)

Jotne
Jotne

Reputation: 41446

Using awk

awk '{gsub(/href="/,"&.");gsub(/" title/,".html&")}1' file

Upvotes: 0

lurker
lurker

Reputation: 58224

sed 's/<a \+href="\([^\"]*\)"/<a href=".\1.html"/g' my_file.html

This looks for anything that looks like <a href="xxx" and replaces the xxx with .xxx.html. It allows more than one space between a and href. To find xxx, it looks for any string between " that doesn't contains ". This assumes your original contains a preceding / as your example shows, and that the <a href="xxx" is all on the same line in the file (not broken between a and href for example). The g option will make sure it takes care of multiple hrefs on a single line.

Upvotes: 1

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