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[Bontheone]

Righto going to throw this out here hopefully someone can help.

I have a large set of old files I need to re-upload for tomrow.

The problem being that due to how they were given to me, whilst internet explorer parses the pages correctly, any other browser does not and just shows the source rather than rendering it.

Each page is a static page, there is no dynamic linking or such.

They are saved in the format, generic.php@page=1 generic.php@page=2 generic.php@page=3 ect. Each page has a link to another generic page, this goes upto 63,000 files.

If I go and add .html onto the file name, so generic.php@page=1.html the other browsers will render the page. However by adding the .html it breaks the links the other pages show.



So, my options.



a) I need a way to mass rename all files to add .html onto the end, then mass edit all the files internally to link to the new .html page

I have a biterscript I used to edit some other stuff, however I have some problems making this work with wildcards.



b) a way to force the .html extention onto the page once it is requested. I tried through htaccess, however again I had problems. I could get it to rewrite it down to generic.html, but it would need to rewrite it to generic.php@page=1.html



The bitterscript is here.

Any suggestions?



var str list ; lf -n "*.php" "F:\Project_Files\test" > $list

while ( $list <> "")
do

var str file ; lex "1" $list > $file

var str content ; cat $file > $content

while ( { sen -c "^generic.php@page=*^" $content } > 0 )
sal "^generic.php@page=*^" "generic.php@page=*.html" $content > null

echo $content > { echo $file }
done





Cheers

[GGWH-James]

You could use something like Notepad++ to do a find/replace in all files using regex. As for the file renaming, what OS are the files to be hosted on? You could write a simple script (i.e. bash, PHP, etc.) to rename the files by appending ".html" to the filename.

[GGWH-James]

I probably should have mentioned, if using the Notepad++ method of find/replace, the following should append ".html" to all instances within the file(s):

Find what:

(generic\.php@page=[0-9]*)

Replace with:

\1.html

Test it out with a single file using the Replace tab though, prior to using it to replace in all files using the Find in Files tab. Also, be sure that "Regular expression" is selected as the Search Mode.

The other method you could use to do it all at once, is to write a script that will read the contents of each file, append ".html" to all instances, write the contents back with the changes, rename the file, and repeat with the next.

[fabin]

You said you have 63000 files. Thats a large amount of files to work manually. May be, you are using windows. If it was in linux, you can use bash and sed to replace it in one go

for i in `seq 1 63000`; do for j in `seq 1 63000`; do sed s/href=\"generic.php\@page=$j\"/href=\"generic.php\@page=$j.html\"/g generic.php\@page=$i; done; done

Some thing like above will do the trick.

[GGWH-James]

Originally Posted by fabin

May be, you are using windows. If it was in linux, you can use bash and sed to replace it in one go

Ya, I'd asked what OS was being used but no reply though. I assumed Windows from seeing "F:\Project_Files\test" in the post though.