perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

[Alex Janssen]

Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.:
>
> $cat file.txt
> Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this:
> http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com,
> etc..
> This is the second line, that doesn't contains links..
> ..
> This is the XYZ line, that contains a link: http://www.somewhere.net
> $
>
>
> ...ok.. so how could I make a regexp for this?
>
> Turning:
>
> http://website.org
> http://www.website.org
>
> to this:
>
> <a href=http://website.org>http://website.org</a>
> <a href=http://www.website.org>http://www.website.org</a>
>
> The solution would be:
>
> sed 'SOMEMAGIC' file.txt > file.html
> or
> perl 'SOMEBIGMAGIC' file.txt > file.html
>
> :D
>   
grep -io "<a.*</a>" somefile.html
That'll extract just the href code.

Alex

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