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I need a shell script to find html files, identify a word in the file and replace dummy text with that word

I have several paralell directories, each with a file named mes.html
In each of these files is one of several standard words, like pure, planet or factor. After each standard word is a number, like 12 or 08.
Based on which word is in the mes.html file, I need to replace the word thumb.jpg with a the standard word in the file, like pure 08.jpg. Even better would be no space in the replacement text.

ygoutham

some more clarity is required.

you have mes.html in too many directories. this mes.html has words pure08, planet03, factor04 etc happening inside them.

you want pure08 to be changed to pure08.jpg and the following

pure08 -> pure08.jpg
planet03 -> planet03.gif

and so on...

is this right??

if so, yes it is doable

kailee

ASKER

not exactly.
mes.html is a standard file in each directory.
in mes.html, are words like 'pure' followed by a number, like '08'
so you might find pure 08, planet 03 or factor 04.
also, in each mes.html is the word 'thumb'.
depending on which word (not number) is found, thumb needs to be replaced by that word and its number.

So, I think case - select is needed as part of the script; one for each word.

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kailee

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can I use something other than a space in the list? There are cases where some of the standard words are actually two words, like 'flower power'.

ozo

in that case, would you want to replace 'thumb' with 'flower power'?

kailee

ASKER

welll.....
I was going to do a search and replace after this process, to keep this one simple.
so, actually, each standard search word (or combo) is replaced by a pair of characters.
So, flower power 12 will become fp12. mutual ecology 05 will beccome me05.

ozo

then would pure 08 become p08?

kailee

ASKER

yes. However, I could make it easier by adding a dummy word after the single word ones. like pure dummy 08, world dummy 13, etc.

ozo

can there be more than one standard word(s) in the file?
would they always appear before the corresponding thumbs?

_iskywalker_

you could reaplace power by "" and the replace flower by flower power.

kailee

ASKER

Ozo. No, there is only one entry per file. Shal I set them to be one word or two words?

ozo

perl -i -pe '($w,$x,$n)=($1,$2,$3) if /\b(?=(.).*?\b(\w))(?:flower power|word dummy)\s*(\d+)/; s/(thumb)/$w$x$n/g if $w'

kailee

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Sorry, I was out of town for awhile. I'm back at looking at this and will try these solutions

Hanno P.S.

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