Mass Edit HTML Files ?? Need To Change over 800 files

[Necrosaro420]

I need to change over 800 html files on my website to reflect the right year and information at the bottom. Is there a program that will mass edit a list of HTML files and do the exact same thing to them all? It will take me forever by hand. Thanks!

 

[GullyFoyle]

jEdit seems to have the functionality you require, and it's freeware.

 

[Markbnj]

Just about any programmer's editor will do search and replace across a fileset.

 

[FeuerFrei]

CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor

It does a search and replace within files. Just point it at the directory. I've used it to do mass changes before.

 

[cleverhandle]

If you're on Unix,

(destructive, back up first...)

for $file in `find /var/www/htdocs/yourdir -name '*.html'`; do
cat $file | sed 's/"old_date_string"/"new_date_string"/' > $file
done

sed and find are both available for Windows as well.

 

[Modeps]

sounds like you should have used some sort of server side scripting language... like say, php... that way, you would only have to update one file instead of 800.

 

[Necrosaro420]

Umm, none of these seems to want ot take out my notes in the HTML? The ones I put in with <!----ADDED THIS FOR----> it will not find that in any of them with all of hte programs mentioned above? Also tried my dreamweaver and textpad???

Any ideas/??? Thanks!

 

[WobbleWobble]

In Dreamweaver, make sure you do a find in the "Entire Site" and search the "Source Code", not just text.

 

[notfred]

Search for: "<!----ADDED THIS FOR---->"
replace with: ""


I don't see the difficulty.