Hello:

I have a Web site that uses PHP to query up pages for display. A typical URL maybe something like: http://www.mysite.org/?page=some_html_page

I want to create a Perl script that copies the Web site content to a temp directory structure; then the script will go through all the URLs inside the many HTML files in that temp dir and change the above URL pattern to be a relative link like "/pages/some_html_page.htm" ; then save the file and move onto the next file in the directory until all the files contain relative URL links.

The goal is to create a localized version (tar.zip) of the Web site so people can download it, unzip and browse locally on their computer without having a local Web server installed.

I used Perl many years ago, so there's lots of rust to break off with me.

Can someone please point me in the right direction as far as possible pre-existing code or something I can build on to get started?

Thanks Much,

Kevin

In reply to Need direction on mass find/replacement in HTML files. by kevin4truth

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