Changing a link on hundreds of html pages
 

Okay I have to change all the links on tons of html pages from one url to another...is there a fast way or doing this...any scripts or programs?? thanx

UltraEdit has a "change in files" option. So do several other proggies...I'm sure someone will be along shortly with a better suggestion...

Try using include files. SSI or php includes. Whatever you have to work with. Split every page up into sections. Use templates!

DWMX 04: Find & Replace

Hey amp with DWMX dont I have to open all the files?? Can you give me some more info?

Thanx Guys:thumbsup

What he said - I use SSI all the time in my own pages, it saves a HEAP of time in administration.

It also means that you can write a template, that has an SSI banner, sidebar, copyright and then you can use PHP to generate your page content - meaning that you only have administer a very small amount of pages instead of 1000s of them.

I remember my first website which I started supporting for a company, it was written in straight html, and had 64,000 pages. Can I say PAIN IN THE ASS?! After I changed to ASP, they had 1 database, 1 template and 5 asp files. Way easier to manage. I would definitely recommend this route!

Oh, figured it out....THANX EVERYONE!

nope.... just open up one file. Find the string you wanna replace, open up Find & Replace, select Source Code, put in the string to find, and the string to replace it with, and select either, This Doc, Specify a folder, or Entire Site.

done in seconds.

if you plan to do it on your computer dreamweaver or homesite can do it.
here's what I'm using if I want to modify links on a server :

find . -type f | xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/old_string/new_string/g'

it works recursivelly on the folders and makes a backup file too (.bak) which you can skip of course if you don't want it.

Does DWMX do this on remote files as well? Or just local files? Remote would be slow as shit (assuming it would have to use FTP, as opposed to opening a Telnet or SSH session, which I doubt it can do), but even via FTP, remote search & replace might have it's uses in some cases for me.

all i got was people trying to sell me shit



dw is good but i was lookin for something to do it on the fly

Dreamveawer :thumbsup


And try to use SSI next time :glugglug

Search and replace 98 can do it. It's free :thumbsup

bk search and replace on the server

do it right.. so you can change it all anytime you want..
make a text file and put the url into it..

might be ghetto but it works :thumbsup

You can use a stream editor like sed that will do it a breeeeze:winkwink:

Damn, I remember this tool from *years* ago! Do they offer S&R on the various Unix servers?
Gotta love Regular Expressions!

BTW, of course PERL, PHP, Python, shell, even C++ or even C could do it. It's just a matter of what's easiest to do it in.

The best program to do that is TextPipe Pro!

the only prob is you have to have php files, so you can't do it for galleries.

Textpad do em all in find replace 1 press

i use bk replace em for these kind of things, works like a charm, fast and easy

Here is the way I do it in server shell:


find directory -name '*.html' -exec perl -pi -e 's/http:\/\/www.oldlink.com/http:\/\/www.newlink.com/g' {} \;

multiupdate



http://www.ksware.com/mu.shtml

Perl can do it. Search google for "perl find and replace"

Multi Replace, by Martin Holmes. :)

If you want to do it on your desktop, there are shitloads of programs out there.

If you want to do it on your server you can do it via PHP or PERL using regex (regular expressions).

Might cost you $10-$20 for someone to code it if you cant do it yourself.

best one is BKMReplace or something
its free

format c

why do you have a hundreds of pages? Use SSI or php includes going forward and you only have to change one file.

With the best editor around: Homesite it's an easy job