[lug] Scripting help, lynx

[Jeffrey S. Haemer]

Paul,

Another way to skin this cat:

for f in **/*.html; do
  lynx -nolist -dump $f > ${f/html/txt}
done

You have to have globstar set, like this: shopt -s globstar .  Me, I have it
in my .bashrc .

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Paul Nowosielski
<paulnowosielski at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I'm trying to convert all the html files
> into text using lynx. The files are in many directories
> with meaningful names.
>
> Can anyone assist me in creating a script
> That will go through each directory recursively
> and convert the files to text and preserve the base name.
>
> ex: file1.html file1.txt file2.html file2.txt (or something close to this)
>
> I have this so far, which correctly traverse the directories
> and spits out the text. But I am not understanding out how
> to direct to a txt file with the same name as the html file.
>
> find ./ -name *.html |xargs -I '{}' lynx -nolist -dump '{}'
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Paul
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