a SED need

[Mike Jeays]

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Jack Stone wrote:
> I have some HTML files with hundreds of URLs that I need to modify using a 
> search/replace string. I assume that SED(1) is the right tool to use, but 
> every syntax I've tried has not worked.
> 
> Here is what I'm trying to do:
> Change full URLs to relative paths, in other words, chop off the
> "http://www.example.com/" portion:
> 
> >From this:
> <li><a href="http://www.example.com/model/many.html">
> To this:
> <li><a href="model/many.html">
> 
> I think it is the slashes and quotes that are giving me fits as I'm very 
> much a novice on SED(1) syntax.
> 
> Would appreciate any tips on how to do the above so I can search and replace 
> all of the hundreds of URLs.
> 
> Many thanks and Happy New Year!
> 
> Regards,
> Jack
> 
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sed will allow other characters than '/' as its delimiter, which makes
it much easier to get escape sequences right, or avoid them altogether.

sed -e 's=/http=/https=g' is an example