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Yo,
Just wanting to know what command I could use to go through all sub directories and search THROUGH html files and replace </html> with <a href=.....</a></html>

perl -pi -e '\s/old/new/' filemask .. so:
perl -pi -e '\s/<\/html>/<a href=http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/search/' *
That only does the current directory, but you can do */*, then */*/* etc. You'll notice I put \'s in front of the /'s, thats because those are special characters, and you need to "escape" them by putting those there. You should put \'s in front of " characters as well if you use them in the href. I suggest creating a test file and testing it on that until you get it right :).

thanks a bunch darnoth!

Not quite darnoth.

:warning USE AT YOUR OWN RISK :warning

First, make a backup of that directory. Then edit the obviously phony (capitalized) variables in this command to your liking:

...will recursively scan through /www/directory/goes/here and replace </html> with <a href="LINKGOESHERE">HYPERTEXT</A> in every single HTML file in that directory. Don't run this more than once.

:thumbsup

INDK cheerS!

hmm neither seemed to work

the idea is to put in .sh file and run, right?

No, just run it.

Describe the error.

it seems to run.. no errors..but no resumes
does it matter if the </HTML> is </HTML> or </html> ?
and do I have to put \ in front of the " and <, >'s

ahh.. it seems to work now.. thx a heaps INDK!

INDK, thanks again.. if you could, hit me up on icq 7278746

cheers