Converting with sed...

[crschmidt]

Turning stylesheet CSS to inline CSS:

sed 's/class="no"/style="background-color:#cc0000"/' blah.foo | sed 's/class="yes"/style="background-color:#00cc00"/' | sed 's/class="paid"/style="background-color:#cccc00"/' | sed 's/class="paidstylefeature"/style="background-color:#000066; color: #ffffff"/' | sed 's/class="allpaidfeature"/style="background-color:#aaaaff; color: #000000"/' | sed 's/class="freefeature"/style="background-color:#aaaaaa; color: #000000"/' | sed 's/td style="back/td style="border: solid 1px #000000; font-size: 11px; back/' | sed 's/td /td width="150px" height="50px" /' | sed 's/th class=".*"/th style="font-size:11px"/' > ~/public_html/blah3.htm

(result is the conversion of http://fweebles.callete.com/S2options.html (Happy Birthday Fweebzors!) to the HTML in http://www.livejournal.com/community/howto_userdoc/35177.html)

That is one monster sed command. For me, anyway. I should actually learn how to use regexs so I can do it smaller next time ;)

Comments

sed

[pne.livejournal.com]

Even with the same number of regexes, you should be able to do it with one sed command:

sed -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's///' ... -e 's///' blah.foo >blah3.htm

or probably also

sed -e 's///
s///
s///
s///' blah.foo >blah3.htm

Also, you could've saved yourselves some typing, since in CSS the colour #abc is the same as #aabbcc.

Re: sed

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

I wasn't exactly sure how the one sed command would work - some of them were actually dependant on the earlier ones being completed, which is why I did it the way I did.

I also just like pipes. I'm sure it would make things slower, but since this entire block took appoximately no time at all to do, I wasn't concerned about that.

The CSS I left, since I wasn't sure how older browsers treated the #abc type, and I have no idea what kind of browsers people will look at it with.

But this is the first time I've ever used sed, so the fact that it WORKED made me pretty happy :)