I have a site that's about 20 different HTML pages and has about 50 or so images per page. Problem is, I forgot to add alt tags from the beginning and I don't have the time to go through and add alt tags for all of them.

I want to write a script that will take all .html/.htm/.shtml scripts in a current folder, open them and and alt tags to every image that doesn't already have them.

Reading files from the directory is something I can probably manage on my own but I wouldn't know an efficient way to run through all applicable files and substitute/add a new image ALT tag. I will be reading from a text file from the same directory as the script for ALT tags one per line meaning the first s/// will be using the first word on the first line of the text file, the second will s/// the second line for the text file, etc. And if it runs out of lines in the text file and still has more to s///, it'll start over and repeat from the top of the text file again.

Any suggestions on how to make a script like this?

In reply to Slurping and s/// a group of files from a list by Anonymous Monk

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