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

[Roberto Ragusa]

Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> 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>
> 

sed -e 's_\(\bhttp://\S*\)_<a href="\1">\1</a>_g'

Not perfect, as some characters should be urlencoded
inside the href.

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