the unix command sed

[bob]

Hey,
trying to write a script that will take a html file and removing everything but the local links.

menu.html
faq.html
stuff/morestuff.html

etc.

I think the sed command is what I want but maybe there’s a better way

I tried sed – e ‘/"//g’ index.html

and this removed all of the double quotes but I can’t make it remove all of the single quotes

I guess how I think the program should work is to remove all double and single quotes then remove all lines that don’t include <a and href then remove everything that’s not between href= and > after that removing everything after .html

anyone think of a better command, algorithm, how to do the single quote thing, or how to do something that will replace everything BUT

[Mattman]

Hmm, I don’t know that I fully understand what you’re trying to do, but I’ve noticed in several programming/scripting languages that if you need it to recognize a single quote, then use ‘ or ” (two single quotes together.)

Might work… Good luck.

[bob]

yeah, I was in c shell and that’s why it did that, I did the thing now and it solved it.
Now I have to figure out how to run sed on shell variables

[nickburnz]

man sed

[bob]

here’s how I figured it out
with sed you don’t have to use / as delims for substittute you can use anything – for example

as for how to set a variable to the results of a command put

var1=`command`

need to use the ` things

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