Unworthy hack that I remain... I beseech mercy and humbly request the honored for direction to a script so I can modify for the following task:
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I can strip out either the header or footer server includes calls in the multitude of over 3000 html files.

Now....
I want to take the remaining hard coded html content of the files and port it into a table cell in a new template I've built and have the script save the new file with the original file name.

So, What I think I need to do is locate a script that finds the file name of each of the 3000 files, input the remaining html code, and build a file with the original name using my new template.

The new template will be a table so i figure I can have a place marker in that table cell, and input the remaining html code of each file into that cell.

Do you know of a script close to this plan i can modify?

Do you have any other suggestions how-to automate this process; namely:

grep/join/build a new file using the original name for the thousands of html files?

much obliged,
unworthy hack Stretch

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