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Such a script would ease the burden of implementing a few site-wide changes to The Global Computer Index.
As it stands 319 HTML files need to be revised in one or more of four separate ways.
Simply to contemplate such laborious and tedious work gets down so I focus on the smaller countries first, as well as the countries of whose cities I list only a very few.
I use find to produce a list of all the files that require revision. What I'd like is a script that sorts that into countries - or into US states - that have the fewest cities that require revision.
That won't save me any effort but it will make me far more productive. It's much easier for me to initiate a task if it at least appears to be a small task.
Here's some sample data:
$ find . -name index.html -exec grep -l 'Computer Job' {} \; | grep -v united | tail
./pakistan/rawalpindi/index.html
./philippines/manila/index.html
./poland/gdansk/index.html
./poland/warsaw/index.html
./russia/moscow/index.html
./russia/novosibirsk/novosibirsk/index.html
./russia/tomsk/index.html
./russia/tomsk-oblast/index.html
./serbia/belgrade/index.html
./singapore/index.html
In this list I would start with Singapore then go on to Serbia and the Philippines.
If I only needed to change "Computer Job" to "Computer Industry Job" I would use sed. But sed alone won't do it because I often have to break long lines into smaller chunks so as to make iFone Fanbois happy.
I'm also migrating my entire site to HTML 5 - but many of my as-yet-unrevised pages are _already_ HTML 5 but some get warnings when I validate them.
Some have spelling errors. Some have errors that doubtlessly would lead foreign patriots to undertake a vendetta against me, my male children and all their male children.
So really I do need to at least inspect all 319 candidate files.
I thank you, and your future managers thank you.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Thursday May 24 2018, @07:49PM
It would be much easier to update your website from one CSV file. Example implementation requires make, bash and perl which are typically present on Linux and MacOS:-
(Usual instructions for uudecode process [soylentnews.org].)
Usage:-
CSV file is flat and de-normalized with following format:-
Export script contains minimal code for styling web site. You may want to improve it. For example, by adding hyperlinks to improve web site navigation.
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