Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:12:39AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> > I don't know how to modify the:
> > 
> > sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,<a href=\"\1\">\1</a>,'
> > 
> > command, to not just:
> > $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^
> > \"$]+).*,<a href=\"\1\">\1</a>,'
> > <a href="http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.uk/</a>
> > 
> > rather output this:
> > test string <a href="http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.uk/</a> test
> 
> How about:
> 
> echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,(.*)(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1<a href=\"\2\">\2</a>,'

Rather:

echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,(.*)(http://[^ \"$]+)(.*),\1<a href=\"\2\">\2</a>\3,'

Kumar
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