On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 21:23:03 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 +0000 > Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6...@ewoof.net> wrote: > > > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,<span class="verse" > > id="V'$v'">,<sup>,g' ./*.html; done > > > > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few > > files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you intended. > > Having done that (or similar), don't forget to change the relevant > </span> closing tags to </sup> closing tags. However, there may be > other </span> closing tags you don't want to change because they close > other <span> tags we haven't seen. So you may prefer to use regexes as > Murphy intended, handling both the opening and closing tags at the same > time, leaving the intervening text intact.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags#answer-1732454
