Re: Lost formatting in browser 'view source'


"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <4sejtcFvg06eU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"J.O. Aho" <user@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some sites I maintain have a lot of pages and changing the names
of all the files is the last thing I would do, not the first ;-)

A small shell script fixes both file names and anchor urls, it's not
that you
must to rename files and fix links manually.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html#ss12.3

and checking the man page for sed.


Sorry J.O., I may be misunderstanding all this. Sounds terribly
complicated. Checking "man pages for sed". For sed!

Honestly, it was easier using find and replace in my text editor,
(3 secs work to change a site) and on broadband not that much
longer to reload all the html files. No other downsides I could
see (there is one, I learnt recently, to help the user: about re
caching repeated text...) but I am wondering if all the claims
for all the trumpeting of the great value of includes is greatly
exaggerated now!

But I will persist because it seems so stupid not to have
includes! I guess a solution to this formatting thing will emerge
at some stage!

includes are great - i have a site with 40(more) pages each of which had a
menu on - so everytime i needed to change the menu i had to do it on every
page, so i sat down one day changed all the content to php and made the
header and menu and footer into includes. sorry for gushing but its saved me
so much time in the long run.


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