[cpscdave]

I need to make the same change to about 45 html files. (I didnt set this up and am kinda pissed off at how it was)

Anyone know a way I can do this in multiple files??

Idealy I'd like to be able to tell some program to change
<a href="someurl.html"> someurl</a>
to
<a href="someurl2.html> someurl2</a>

I could do it w/ an xemacs macro but still would have to apply it to every file one at a time...

GRRRR

[TroyTime]

if you have dreamweaver, it likely came with homesite
homesite USED to come with a replace in files that could use regular expressions...not sure if it still does or not

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by cpscdave

I could do it w/ an xemacs macro but still would have to apply it to every file one at a time...

Do you have access to a Linux or Unix box? If so, you can use sed.

Example:

$ sed "s/someurl/someurl2/" {input file} > {output file}

Then you could put that in a loop:

$ for f ({list of input files}); sed "s/someurl/someurl2/" $f > output_files/$f; done

That's not the exact syntax but that illustrates the point.

Peace...