Hans wrote: >Three questions for the expers: > >- I need to clean up a bunch of html files from <SCRIPT> </SCRIPT> tags. I >tried sed -e s/\<SCRIPT.*SCRIPT\>// file.html > file.html2, but it only >deletes the first line, not the whole script. The /m modifier doesn't seem >to work. How do I go about it.
If it only deletes the first line, the other lines don't match the given pattern. sed operates on each line in turn. Your pattern will remove <SCRIPTanythingSCRIPT> from any individual line. It won't work with multilines; since you don't show the data you're operating on, I can't be precise. Come to think of it, your problem may be that you aren't quoting the editing instruction, so the * will be replaced by a list of files in the current directory; I'm surprised you don't get a whole lot of errors from that. Use single quotes around the editing instruction, so you won't need to escape anything inside it: sed -e 's/<SCRIPT.*SCRIPT>//' >- Is it possible to overwrite the original file, not redirect to an >alterate file? No. >- How do I process a bunch of files at once? sed -e s/foo/bar/ *.html > >*html2 doesn't seem to do it. Or need it be something like for $i in * >do....? I can't seem to get this to work either. for f in *.html do echo Processing $f sed -e 's/foo/bar/' $f > $$ mv $$ $f done -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight..." Psalms 51:2-4
