sed replacement on multiple files 1

[addinall]

My brain seems to be stuck.

I got given some some 200 HTML files that had been
created on a Windows box using dreamweaver. After
hours of trying to figure out why my javascript
refuses to work (using the jQuery gear) I stumbled on
the fact that although all the input types had a name
allocated, none have an id.

What I want to do is use sed to search for

name="anythingatall"
and change it to
name="anythingatall" id="anythingatall"

I can't seem to get this one right.....

Mark.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Supposing the HTML looks like you posted :

sed '/<input/s/\(name="\([^"]*\)"\)/\1 id="\2"/' /path/to/input

If the tag or attribute names are not all lowercase ( not sure if it works in every [tt]sed[/tt] ) :

sed '/<input/Is/\(name="\([^"]*\)"\)/\1 id="\2"/i' /path/to/input

If the attribute values are not delimited with double quotes ( " ) then is abit more complicated.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[addinall]

Thanks mate

 

[feherke]

Hi

Oops. Now I see that I forgot the last "if".

If there are more tags ( especially others than [tt]input[/tt] ) with [tt]name[/tt] attribute in one line then is abit even more complicated.

But I understand that is not the case.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/