Combining 100's of HTML pages into 1. Ideas?
 

Just looking to see if anyone has any creative ideas....

I have a directory with about 200 standard HTML pages that I am trying to append into one BIG page.

Any thoughts on how I can do this quickly and easily?

The quick and dirty method is to use the unix "cat" command...

ex/ cat *.htm >output.htm

This will take all contents from all .htm files and put them in output.htm

A simple perl script could do something similar and you could format the output so you don't have a billion extra HTML tags.

Print all the pages out and tape them together from top to bottom, forming one long page. Then buy text recognition software and a scanner that supports it. Buy a feeder that will slide the now 100-page long paper through your scanner, slow enough to recognize the text.

Then take the text that has been scanned and convert it into html (you'll need to remember what was bold and everything, and use those tags).

And as an added bonus, you'll have a 100 foot long "rope" if you will, of taped paper. Fold it up carefully and keep it on your nightstand. In case of a fire, drop it out your window and climb to safety.

Idiot. You think I'm gonna trust a paper ladder in the event of a fire? Come on. Be serious for a second.

I'll just jump into your mama's gash. Im sure that'll be big enough to catch me.

Booo.... Mama Jokes.

Thats not silly.... its fucking NUTS! but not silly :1orglaugh

under windows you can use copy *.html+*.html output.html
( command mode )
Then with a text editor remove the html / html tags

Yes...I'm the idiot all right... :thumbsup

Okay fuck it...I'll go you one better. Yes, I am the idiot in question.

The "rope" could also be used to hang yourself.

Hmm...you win this round... :(

Without parsing it, no idea.

if you have cygwin installed, you could use the cygwin version of sed to pull the body text out of each file pipe, and map over each directory list element.

or you could use sed to grab the body elements of "cat *.html" as suggested and pipe the result to out.html.