Batch Edit Multiple HTML files | Find and Replace

Question

Hi,
I would like to use Automator to automate (I know that sounds redundant) the following process.
1. Take a group of html files
2. Open each file so it can find and replace the script of any image folders
Example:
Change: img src="home_files/photo.jpg" to img src="images/photo.jpg"
3. Save & Close each file
I assume this this would have to be done in either AppleScript or Cocoa.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

you most definitely don't need Cocoa for something like that. if all you need is a straightforward search and replace in a bunch of html files you can easily do this with a shell script. If you need some more involved search and replace you have to explain what it is exactly that you want.
to automate direct search and replace you can do something along the following lines in automator
1. get selected finder items (this will select your html files)
2. run shell script action with input passed as arguments
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
for f in "$@"
do
fl=`echo "$f"`
sed 's%home_files/photo.jpg%images/photo.jpg%g' $f > /users/$USER/.tmp.txt
cat /users/$USER/.tmp.txt > "$fl"
done
rm /users/$USER/.tmp.txt</pre>