I have 800+ HTML files from which I need Code lines 50 - 100 from each file.
I tried Excel macros, terminal and textedit so far but with no luck.
I am looking for an automated solution.
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You need to open the file, extract line 50-100 and repeat that for all 800 files, is that correct? – MikNiller Dec 07 '19 at 15:17
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Yes, that could also work – TomTe Dec 07 '19 at 15:20
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Ideally store the extracted content all together in one new file below each other – TomTe Dec 07 '19 at 15:21
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Can you use powershell ? – MikNiller Dec 07 '19 at 15:23
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:) Just guessed on windows because of excel macros – MikNiller Dec 07 '19 at 15:25
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I have office for mac – TomTe Dec 07 '19 at 15:26
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I think i would suggest going with sed then, something like sed -e '50,100d' myfile.html, and then piping the files into sed instead of specifying name as myFile.html – MikNiller Dec 07 '19 at 15:31
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sed as a command in terminal? – TomTe Dec 07 '19 at 15:46
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yes. read more at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/83329/how-can-i-extract-a-predetermined-range-of-lines-from-a-text-file-on-unix or even better https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1182756/remove-line-of-text-from-multiple-files-in-linux – MikNiller Dec 07 '19 at 15:55
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will try that. thanks for showing – TomTe Dec 07 '19 at 15:58
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An example of using sed in a shell
oneliner
sed -i.bak -e '50,100d' *.html
remove lines 50-100 in all files with extension html, save a copy of the original file with a .bak extension.
or in a loop without -i
for file in *.html
do
sed -e '50,100d' "$file" > "$file".bak
done
best to take a full backup of all files before playing around with sed. and be . aware that sed is implemented with different options in various versions.
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