Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:14:17 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: using perl to sub § for \xa7. Message-ID: <20060317231417.GA3230@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20060317072405.GA249@thought.org> References: <20060317072405.GA249@thought.org>
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in message <20060317072405.GA249@thought.org>, wrote Gary Kline thusly... > > I've got several chapters with footnptes with that double-S > "section" character. In HTML, the code is § The thing I > want to do is use perl to s/ \xa7/§/g.....but don't know the > keycombo to /find or designate tthe hex a7 byte. Can anybody clue > me in? Use '-i' option for in place editing, '-p' to print the results to the file, '-e' to specify the code to run ... perl -pi -e 's/\xa7/§/g' file-1 file-2 file-3 ... if you have quite many files use 'find' to find the HTML files, say in directory named '/html/files' ... find /html/files -type f -name '*.html' -print0 \ | xargs -0 perl -pi -e 's/\xa7/§/g' - Parv --
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