Updating the © 2007 at the bottom of a lot of pages...

AARRRGH

Hello

Is there any way to do a mass update of the © 2007 at the bottom of my websites?

I would be looking for a command line solution.

From a bit of googling I've come across awk, but that seems really awkward to use...

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Thanks

Liam Byrne

Depends on what you're using for the site.

PHP

<?php echo "© ".date("Y"); ?>

JavaScript

today=new Date();
yr=today.getFullYear();
document.write("©"+yr);

etc, etc.

AARRRGH

Hi Liam

Thanks for the reply.

Currently it's "© 2007". Replacing that with <?php echo "© ".date("Y"); ?> would be ideal!

Although I am happy to just replace 2007 with 2008.

Is there a way to do this?

You know, "in /home/* look for © 2007 and replace with © 2008"...

Sully

You should really split the top and bottom of each page into a header and footer, then include them on each page using PHP. It makes life a lot easier - its a pain if its a big site to go changing each page.

If not, you should just use "Search and Replace" in your editor so it searches for it.

Not sure about a shell alternative, I don't like editing pages that way!

Gordon

For simple stuff like that I use my trusty TextWrangler program and set it off on a simple find/replace or a tasty Grep through specified folders, or on all my open text documents.

I think it's Mac only though: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

You'd be best doing the header/footer thing in future for this kind of thing as has been mentioned.

So, yes it's possible but you need the program to do it.

daymobrew

dublindude wrote: »

From a bit of googling I've come across awk, but that seems really awkward to use...

sed is probably easier.

for f in *.html
do
  echo $f
  mv $f $f.bak
  sed 's/copy; 2007/copy; 2008/' $f.bak >$f
done

This will make a backup of each file before making the changes. You can diff the files to ensure it worked correctly.

randombar

notepad++ allows you to find and replace with all open documents (pretty handy!)

CoNfOuNd

From the command line:

replace "2007" "2008" -- /home/user/www/directory/*

Obviously be careful with this and make sure you aren't replacing other stuff! Use grep first to see a list of all the files with 2007 in them.

AARRRGH

Thanks everyone for the replies.

I've have a play around with your suggestions and see what I come up with.

Cheers!

mewso

I'm curious about copyrights on a web page. I'm pretty sure it's not necessary to display a copyright (web pages are automatically copyrighted??) anyway but if you choose to do so surely you want to keep the date that the page was created and not update it to the current date?