Re: A little sed

[A+B Frank <abfrankffm@web.de>]

"N. Raghavendra" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:19:53AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> 
> > - 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.
> >
> > - Is it possible to overwrite the original file, not redirect
> > to an alterate file?
> >
> > - 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.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You could use the shell scripts 'overwrite' and 'replace' in
> Kernighan and Pike, The UNIX programming environment, Chapter 5,
> Section 5.5, pages 154-155.
> 
> Best,
> Raghavendra.
> 

Hi,
perheps you can solve the problem with awk, where you can set 
variables in the script.

Greetings
Albrecht