Question

I have some source code files which came to me by an HTML output, so they re pretty unusable.

I have things like this:

%include &quot;macros.mac&quot;

Which should be:

%include "macros.mac"

Is there any script (sh, perl, batch, ...) to convert every file (there are about 200) to the appropriate characters? Characters include & lt;, & gt;, ... (I put an space in the middle so that it wont convert them to < and >.

Thank you, it s very appreciated.

Answer 1

If it is just about the four &"<> characters, sed(1) could help:

sed  s/&quot;/"/g; s/&lt;/</g; s/&gt;/>/g; s/&amp;/&/g

Update: My original proposal was the following and had a bug:

sed  s/&amp;/&/g; s/&quot;/"/g; s/&lt;/</g; s/&gt;/>/g

This would convert "&gt;" into ">" which is wrong.

Answer 2

you can try a tool like windows grep or textcrawler for this

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