Re: <link> not clickable from text document

[Thomas Springer]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:50:15 +0100
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:

>  On 7/31/05, Thomas Springer <th.springer(a)gmx.net&gt; wrote:
>  ...
>  > Try this:
>  > 
>  > $ sed 's|^http://\(.*/\)\(.*\)|<a href="\1\2">\1</a>|g;
> s|href="|
>  > href="http://|g' /input/file/with/links > /output/file/with/
>  > clicklinks
>  > 
>  > 
>  > It's minimal changed from the first example, which didn't things
>  > well when i tried it out with your uri.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Thomas
>  ...
>  
>  Sorry that I didn't notice that sed was using input and output files, 
>  should've seen that.
>  
>  I made a dummy with just one link to test the sed command.  The  link
>  is entirely on one line, where as if I were to paste it here then it
>  would wrap, I'm not sure if that's relevant.
>  
>  Here's the link in dumm.txt, wrapped:
>  
>
> <http://ipac3.vpl.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!1150206~!25&ri=...
>  
>  
>  [thufir@arrakis click]$ date
>  Sun Jul 31 21:26:23 IST 2005
>  [thufir@arrakis click]$ pwd
>  /home/thufir/click
>  [thufir@arrakis click]$ ll
>  total 36
>  -rw-rw-r--  1 thufir thufir    0 Jul 31 21:26 clicklist.txt
>  -rw-rw-r--  1 thufir thufir   95 Jul 31 21:26 dummy.txt
>  -rw-rw-r--  1 thufir thufir 5366 Jul 31 08:37 linklist.txt
>  -rw-rw-r--  1 thufir thufir 5366 Jul 31 15:38 linklist.txt.backup
>  [thufir@arrakis click]$ cat dummy.txt
>
> http://ipac3.vpl.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!1150206~!25&ri=...
>  
>  
>  [thufir@arrakis click]$ sed 's|^http://\(.*/\)\(.*\)|<a
>  href="\1\2">\1</a>|g; s|href="|
>  href="http://|g' dummy.txt > clicklist.txt
>  sed: -e expression #1, char 58: unterminated `s' command
>  [thufir@arrakis click]$
>  
>  
>  
>  I opened "dummy.txt" from openoffice and the link wasn't clickable,
>  but I do notice that if I were to e-mail these to myself that they
>  become clickable from gmail.  Still, I'd like to get the sed command
>  working, partly out of curiousity.
>  
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Thufir
>  
It goes like this,
 
$ sed 's|^http://\(.*/\)\(.*\)|<a href="\1\2">\1</a>|g;
>  s|href="| href="http://|g' dummy.txt > clicklist.txt
$ echo $?
0
$ cat clicklist.txt
<a
href="http://ipac3.vpl.ca/ipac20/ipac.js..">ipac3.vpl.ca/ipac20/</a>

Sorry,I can't see why it doesn't work for you.

Try again, or use the file which comes with this message.

* Save,
* make it executable, then
* ./clinks.sh inputfile > outputfile

Thomas