On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:54:46 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > I want to remove all advertisements in my 100 html files. They are > pretty neatly classed, like the following: > > <div class="advertisement"> > ... > </div> > > However I could not simply do this: > s/<div class="advertisement">.*</div>// > > Because it is too greedy
For not-so-simple tasks, you need not-so-simple tools. Depending on how much time you'd like to investigate into such not-so-simple tools, take a look at libwwww?, sgrep or the xpath language. HTH -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org