[ale] mass file modification

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 01:11 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> It's the length and charcters in the replacement string (html +
> javascript) .  Encoding that for sed would test my patience and skill.
> ;-)

Oh, dear.  43,000 static HTML documents?

If sed won't work, I'd probably resort to brute-forcing it with a Python
script that took a single file as a parameter, processed it in the way
that it needs processing, and using find + xargs to run it on all the
files... it'll probably take a little while, but it'll work.

You could also use $FAVORITE_SCRIPTING_LANGUAGE to build the sed command
line and just do it that way.

	--- Mike

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