Question

I have a lot of html files with custom style sheets within. I would like to create one universal style sheet that they all can use.
So what i need to do is replace

< style type=”text/css”>

.Title {….
.body {..

< /style>

including the tags with this in multiple html files.

< link media=”screen” href=”style.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet” />

Im sure someone has ran into this problem and im wondering what would be the easiest way to accomplish this task? is there some kind of applescript or php script i can run to do this or is there another way of doing this?

Answer 1

I’d usually just use TextMate’s Search in Project or some Ruby or shell script. I have a script like this saved as ggsub.rb and just modify it when I need to replace something in multiple files.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -Ku

# paths = `find ~/Sites -name '*.html'`.chomp.split("\n")
paths = Dir["*.html"]

paths.each do |path|
  html = File.read(path)
  html.sub!(/<style.*?>.*?<\/style>/m,
  "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"style.css\">")
  puts html
  # File.open(path, "w") { |f| f.puts(html) }
end