Scripting / one liner help

[Hal Burgiss]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Patton Echols <p.echols at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 08/10/2011 09:47 AM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
>
>> See if this gets close to extracting the image names ...
>>
>> grep SRC *html | sed -r 's/SRC="([^"]+)"/\1/ig' | whatever_script.sh
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks Hal,
>
> my script starts with "for i in *jpg" and then works each file
> individually.  So I tried that line without the pipe to whatever_script.sh,
> hoping for a list of files to be output to the terminal.  That seemed to
> output the string of tags but without the double quotes around the image
> names.  Is that what it should have done?
>
>
That was what I was getting at, yes, the list of image filenames.

If you want just file names, you might try:

 grep -H SRC *hmtl | sed 's/:.*//' |sort|uniq

or something along those lines. (Completely untested)

-- 
Hal
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