On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 15:47 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 7/31/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > sed 's|^http://\(.*\)/|<a href="\1">\1</a>|g; s|href="|href="http://|g' > > linklist.txt > clicklist.txt > > ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Note that Alexander gave you (examples of) an input file and an output file that are different. You will need to use 2 different filenames for sed to work. The input file must exist, the output file will be created. In your command below, the input file does not exist so it cannot perform the task. This is seen in the output of your 'll' command. > > Alexander > > > Thanks, Alexander. I did: > > [thufir@arrakis click]$ > [thufir@arrakis click]$ > [thufir@arrakis click]$ > [thufir@arrakis click]$ date > Sun Jul 31 15:41:46 IST 2005 > [thufir@arrakis click]$ pwd > /home/thufir/click > [thufir@arrakis click]$ ll > total 24 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 thufir thufir 5366 Jul 31 08:37 clicklist.txt > -rw-rw-r-- 1 thufir thufir 5366 Jul 31 15:38 clicklist.txt.backup > [thufir@arrakis click]$ sed 's|^http://\(.*\)/|<a href="\1">\1</a>|g; > s|href="|href="http://|g' > > linklist.txt > clicklist.txt > > [thufir@arrakis click]$ > > > about how long should this take? I gave the command 60 seconds and > hit ctrl-c to cancel it. examining clicklist.txt shows no change. > > Aha, I might've provided faulty data. The links aren't all of the form > > http://www.foo.com/ > > but more like > > http://ipac3.vpl.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!1221436~!17&ri=42&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&source=~!horizon&profile=pac > > > > is that the problem? > > > > > Thanks, > > Thufir >