[Gllug] Batch Text Replacement

[Henry Gilbert]

Hi John,

thanks for your attention

> On 29/10/2007, John Hearns <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:
> Errr... just mount the remote data via NFS or Samba.
> You can VPN tunnel NFS if you have to.
>

Not my server and not even a dedicated server.
I am probably confined to only FTP.

> Do your sed/awk/Perl on the mounted drive
>

Will need to recap on regex though :/

> > Just need to know what easy app can perform such feat - pretty easily.
> sed/awk/Perl
>

I was really looking for something more GUI
I looked around here and found a utility called KFileReplace

Still not that good though, it can't perform substitutions remotely,
and it's kinda clumsy

Wished we could have just: Select Folder > Enter String > Enter
Replacement-String > then Click OK.

>
>
> I guess you are wanting to be all Web Services, SOAP, Web 2.0.

No Soap here.
haven't touched such things since my Visual Studio days.

Quick question then:

What would be the regex (or even the "sed" command) that would strip
any occurrence of the string ' style="blah blah blah' from a group of
html files?

ie

<span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">

becomes

<span>

that would help me loads.

As I have the not very exciting task of having to clean up / tidy up :
40 pages of seriously messy FrontPage code.

all the best

HG

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