Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:38:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: using perl to sub § for \xa7. Message-ID: <20060318003815.GB19216@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060317231417.GA3230@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20060317072405.GA249@thought.org> <20060317231417.GA3230@holestein.holy.cow>
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Parv wrote: > 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 > Yeah, this is what I use for most cmd-line subs, but will a literal "\xa7" be interpreted by the shell as the section character? (Where is there an online map of all ISO-8859-1 keycodes? [E.g.: an aigu is <alt>-i; it is "\xe9" in keystrokes.]) > > ... 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' > > Thanks. I've still got does dozens of files/chapters. X-| :) gary > - Parv > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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