On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 20:23:33 at 08:23:33PM +0200, Patrick (shrike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After converting various gifs to png I still need to replace all > > references to <pic>.gif in several html files to <pic>.png. Is there an > > easy way to do this other than manually? Some sed/awk magic anyone? > > > In Perl, for each HTML file, you would do on the command line: > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/\.gif\b/.png/g;' the_file.html > > this will first create a backup copy named the_file.html.bak, then > find all the strings _ending_ in .gif, and replace that with .png . > > Try on disposable copies before going for it, however, and remember > than the recipe above is case sensitive, will ignore .GIF, .Gif, etc.. and if you *want* it to be case-insensitive, just use s/.../.../gi (that is, add the "i") rday
