Question

Hi I am trying to write a script to parse some html files to make a job a bit easier, but I’m having no luck, I’ve tried reading other threads and manuals to no avail. I seem to get stuck with circular brackets.

I want to replace all appearances of:

$FORMTOP("2")$ with $FORMTOP("3")$

$WHITE*("5")$ with $WHITE*("10")$

</b> with </strong>

<tr><td with <tr> newline, tab <td

delete occurrences of <td></td>

Answer 1

In sed you will have to put a new line (put a “\” and hit enter) and tab spaces (press spacebar 8 times) manually in the replacement section.

[jaypal@MBP-13~/temp] sed 's/<tr><td/<tr>\
        <td/g' test123
<tr>
        <td 

<tr>
        <td