Find and replace on a website

[donnek]

Hi! Can anyone point me in the right direction of a script (in Perl?) that would allow me to replace a fairly large chunk of HTML on a server with another fairly large chunk? I then need to do the same locally on my friend's Win PC, but that's easier.
Thanks.

[jemfinch]

This should work, but I haven't tested it. Change the appropriate variables, make a backup directory, and try it out on that.


#!/usr/bin/env python

import os, string

basedir = 'change_this'
old = 'oldstuff'
new = 'newstuff'

def visit(arg, dirname, names):
files = filter(lambda x: x[-5:] == '.html', os.listdir(dirname))
files = map(lambda x d=dirname: os.path.join(d, x), files)
for file in files:
fd = open(file, 'r')
content = fd.read()
fd.close()
newcontent = string.replace(content, old, new)
fd = open(file, 'w')
fd.write(newcontent)
fd.close()

os.path.walk(basedir, visit, None)


Yes, I know it's not in perl. But that's only because perl sux0rs.

Jeremy