Re: Debian 2.0: Checklist automated
On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 bhmit1@mail.wm.edu wrote:
> P.S. Any sed expert who can think of how to change the e-mail addresses
> into mailto links with a sed command (or any command) could do me a huge
> favor by sharing your wisdom. See http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb and view
> one of the html sources.
a regular expression such as the following:
s/\(.*\)/<A HREF="mailto:\1";>\1<\/A>/
should convert a string, like:
foo@bar.com
into
<A HREF="mailto:foo@bar.com";>foo@bar.com</A>
the same regular expression should work with sed and awk.
the syntax for perl is slightly different. use just (...) instead of
\(...\), and use $1 instead of \1 for the back-references..
s/(.*)/<A HREF="mailto:$1";>$1<\/A>/
the RE could be made smarter, but this will handle simple cases.
use in a sh script like so:
#! /bin/sh
ADDR="cas@taz.net.au"
LINK=$( echo "$ADDR" | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/<A HREF="mailto:\1";>\1<\/A>/' )
craig
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craig sanders
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