Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
Re: Domain Name Change and Perl Programmer Needed
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, David Fanning wrote: > Folks, > > To coincide with the imminent (I promise!) release of > this new book, I have changed domain names from > www.dfanning.com to www.idlcoyote.com. Some of you > (probably not the ones who didn't know what "FSC_" > stood for) may have noticed, as there has been some > redirection going on for a week or so. > > The final move should be today. (It may have already > happened.) This shouldn't affect anyone, as the > redirect should happen automatically and should be > painless. (Have you heard this story before?) But, > I would encourage you, if you have the time, to fix > your links, etc. > > There are some updates to the web site planned. > Nothing major, and mostly having to do with an updated > shopping cart for the store, which has been a nightmare > of its own that I won't go into. In any case, it is not > ready yet, but the old store is still working, I believe. > I guess we are about to find out. :-) > > One of the things I could use, if someone wanted to > volunteer some Perl programming time, is a script that > would rip through my *.html files and change all instances > of "dfanning.com" to "idlcoyote.com". I guess I could > figure this out myself, but it is pretty far down on my > list and I though someone here might like to feel > *extremely* appreciated! > > Cheers, > > David > > > -- > David Fanning, Ph.D. > Fanning Software Consulting, Inc. > Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ > Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.") > A single line bash script will do the job if you are on Linux/Unix: for f in `find wwwdocs -name '*.html'`; do echo Fixing $f ...; sed 's/dfanning\.com/idlcoyote.com/g' <$f >$f.tmp; mv $f.tmp $f; done (replace wwwdocs with the head of your dir. hierarchy). regards, Lajos ps: do a backup before running the it, please :-)
FÖLDY Lajos writes: > ps: do a backup before running the it, please :-) Yeah, I thought maybe I would. In fact, I just found a couple of places where it probably *shouldn't* be changed. :-( Thanks for this. I don't generally work in LINUX, but I may have to get used to it to write that IDL 8 book Teddy has advanced ordered. :-) Cheers, David -- David Fanning, Ph.D. Fanning Software Consulting, Inc. Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/ Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")