HomeSite has a "Replace in Files" feature that will even remove the need to
load all the pages as long as all the files are in the same directory or
subdirectories thereof.  Also, my FAVORITE companion app, UltraEdit, can do
the same.

- Conrad Shull

> If you don't want to write a program then you can use something like
> HomeSite and open the 600+ files and do an "Extended Replace" 
> to insert your
> line automatically in every file.  If you are using Unix then 
> you can do
> that with regex on the command line.
> 
> -Mukesh
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bobmin(at)nidlink.com>
> To: <hwg-languages(at)mail.hwg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:25 AM
> Subject: Compelling Need
> 
> 
> > Greetings;
> >  I realize this may be off topic, but people on this list 
> have probably
> > run across a similar situation before and I'm wondering if anyone
> > has a solution.
> >
> >  I need to update files, specifically insert one line of 
> code into every
> > file of a modestly large website (roughly 600+ pages). My choices
> > are to either not update the files, or to hand load each 
> file into my
> > editor (firstpage2000) and update each file manually. There has to
> > be a better way of performing these updates, some automatic
> > mechanism which allows you to insert a single line into a specific
> > spot in a file.
> >
> >  If anyone has any ideas about how to accomplish this, I'd like to
> > hear about them please.
> >
> > Regards
> > Bob Minnick, Northern Webs
> >
> > Bob Minnick, President, Northern Webs 208.265.0474
> |
> > Mainpage:      http://www.northernwebs.com
> > Meta Medic:    http://www.northernwebs.com/set/setsimjr.html
> > SpiderView LC: http://www.northernwebs.com/set/spider_view.html
> > SpiderView DA: http://www.northernwebs.com/set/spider_view_da.html
> >
> 

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