CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxshellsed
user3627729
user3627729

Reputation: 19

Sed with random string inside search

Hi everybody i try to create a script which modify string inside html files.

I want to edit this line:

<a class="ABC" href=/photos/albums">

I want replace "ABC" by "test" - the problem is that the name of the class is not always ABC it can change by a random name but there is always href=/photos...

Is it possible to replace the random name of class by test?

Thans for help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (1)

Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174756

Through GNU sed,

$ sed -r 's~(<a\s*class=")([^"]*)("\s*href=/photos)~\1test\3~g' file
<a class="test" href=/photos/albums">

Changed the sed delimiter only because of forward slashes in your input.

Upvotes: 1

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