Using Regular Expresions to change .htm to .php in files

[sebzzz]

Hi,

I have a bunch of files that have changed from standard htm files to
php files but all the links inside the site are now broken because
they point to the .htm files while they are now .php files.

Does anyone have an idea about how to do a simple script that changes
each .htm in a given file to a .php

Thanks a lot in advance

 

[Tobiah]

Hi,

I have a bunch of files that have changed from standard htm files to
php files but all the links inside the site are now broken because
they point to the .htm files while they are now .php files.

Does anyone have an idea about how to do a simple script that changes
each .htm in a given file to a .php

Thanks a lot in advance

#!/bin/bash

for each in *.php; do

sed "s/.htm/.php/g" < $each > /tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $each
done

 

[Mark]

sed "s/.htm/.php/g" < $each > /tmp/$$

This line should be:

sed "s/\.htm$/.php/g" < $each > /tmp/$$

 

[Ryan Ginstrom]

On Behalf Of Mark

This line should be:

sed "s/\.htm$/.php/g" < $each > /tmp/$$

I think a more robust way to go about this would be:

(1) Use os.walk to walk through the directory
http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

(2) Use Beautiful Soup to extract the internal links from each file
http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)
links = soup('a')
internal_links = [link["href"]
for link in links
if link.has_key("href") and not
link["href"].startswith("http")]

(4) Do straight string replacements on those links (no regex needed)

(5) Save each html file to *.html.bak before changing


Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom