Hello, On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:40:05 -0500 Jeff Vian wrote: > > Alexander Dalloz 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. > I think you do understand, now. > > > > 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 > > > > > > 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=... > > > > is that the problem? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Thufir > > Try this: $ sed 's|^http://\(.*/\)\(.*\)|<a href="\1\2">\1</a>|g; s|href="| href="http://|g' /input/file/with/links > /output/file/with/clicklinks It's minimal changed from the first example, which didn't things well when i tried it out with your uri. Thomas
