Modifying HTML files in a directory

**casperl** · 05-11-2007

I want to modify all html files in a directory (recursively) in the following way:

1. Find starting body tag (<body>)
2. Just after that insert my custom html tags (e.g. <p>Hello World</p>)

So my aim is just inserting "<p>Hello World</p>" at the top of the page.

How can i do this? Which command line tools (awk, grep..) should i use? And can you give me some starting point or the command i need to run?

Thanks.

**birdman** · 05-11-2007

This way should work:

Code:

for a in `find . -print | grep .*\.html`
do
    sed -i "s/<body>/<body><p>Hello World<\/p>/g" $a
done

However, this will still insert your tags if they are already there. Check for their existence after <body> in the file if you want to avoid this.

Regards

**casperl** · 05-12-2007

Thanks for the answer birdman.

**ghostdog74** · 05-13-2007

Originally Posted by birdman

This way should work:

Code:

for a in `find . -print | grep .*\.html`
do
    sed -i "s/<body>/<body><p>Hello World<\/p>/g" $a
done

Regards

don't have to use grep,

Code:

....
find . -type f -name "*.html" -print 
....

however, this can also do it..

Code:

find . -type f -name "*.html" -print0|xargs -0 sed -i 's/searchpattern/replace pattern /g'

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