[wellylug] Regex, replace stuff in command line help...

[Jo Booth]

Trying to figure out how to get an id back out of a series of old  
saved web pages.... haven't had to use Regular Expressions for  
replacing stuff in wrath for a while...

Bunch of links.. in a html file random scattered, but in tables etc...
something like <a href="url or relative link/profile?u=mangee">

I want a list of the  u= aliases.  like I want - mangee

Bunch of files...
$ ls
backup1.html
backup2.html
backup3.html
...
backup300.html
$


Tried:
perl -pe 's/profile\?u\=(.*)"[.]/${1}/' *

Got:
The entire page.


I present i'm doing it by hand.  1150 to go. :(  Theres gotta be a  
better way!

Stupid databases that don't exist anymore. :|

-Jo







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