Howto insert string. (Was: Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.)

Mon Aug 7 01:02:16 UTC 2006

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Scott Sipe wrote:
> 
> On Aug 6, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >	Thanks much!  I *did* learn that with just FS, no need "END".
> >	Maybe you can help me figure out what I'm trying to do because
> >	I'm wedged!!
> >
> >	I've got 80 or so html/php files. Most do have
> >
> >	<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF">
> >
> >	but a whole slew do not/are missing the BG color code.
> >	So is there some scripto-magic way of finding out which fles are
> >	missing the above string?  I know how, using an ed/ex script to
> >	insert this string.
> >
> >	My hacker brain seems to be on strike!
> >
> >	gary
> 
> Not 100% sure this is what you're wanting, but you can just do  
> something like:
> 
> grep "myregex" * | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'
> 
> This will print out the first column (ie, whatever comes before the  
> first colon).
> 
> if the options are either "<BODY>" or "<BODY BGCOLOLR="#FFFFFF">"  I  
> guess you  could do something like:
> 
> grep "<BODY" * | grep -v BGCOLOR | awk -F ':' '{print $1}'
> 
> to get the files that have a body line sans BGCOLOR (you might need  
> to account for case in the tags also)
> 
> Scott

	Thanks, Scott.  I didn't know that "-F 'char' would reset the
	field separator.  I'll save this to my AWK howto.  


	gary


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