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I have a list like this.
BobJimSteveIs there a way in bash to turn that into a list like this?
<a href="http://example.com/Bob"> Bob<a href="http://example.com/Jim"> Jim<a href="http://example.com/Steve"> Steve
13throwaway
Posted 2013-08-05T21:02:09.210
Reputation: 3
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This should work fine:
#/usr/bin/env bash
while read n; do
echo "<a href=\"http://example.com/${n}\">${n}</a>"
done < ${1}
If you made that a script, then you would call it with ./scriptname.sh filename.txt and it just prints it to the console. (Note: I extrapolated your question to include a </a> as well.)
nerdwaller
Posted 2013-08-05T21:02:09.210
Reputation: 13 366
Where is the list coming from? That is probably the best way to start and give you some ideas. If it is a bash array, then use of awk or sed is probably unnecessary. If it's just an array (i.e.
list=("Bob", "Jim", "Steve")) then you could dofor i in "${list[@]}"; do echo <a href="http://example.com/${i}">${i}</a>; done. – nerdwaller – 2013-08-05T21:07:11.683It's just a text file. – 13throwaway – 2013-08-05T21:07:56.643
Each on its own line? – nerdwaller – 2013-08-05T21:08:43.940
Yes, each on it's own line. – 13throwaway – 2013-08-05T21:09:35.603