Single HTML tag remove from mass files?

Question

I have bulk html files within several folders. And the problem is i have to remove tags from those html files. I can't figure out how to do that.. I searched the internet and found nothing. Is there any cmd script that will open every html file and remove the tags or replace with any other tag of my choice? Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Well.. after 8 hours of my personal experiments, it should work now as @user3551620 wanted. I made updates in my answer due to change of specification of question, where user told me he wants to run this script in system files where I treat with problem of work with path that contain spaces as: "Program Files (x86)" ... Remember that If you run this script in system files, you should do it as an administrator, due to creating new temp file and other writings in script that need permission to do it.

Now correct code should work as follows:

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

::get path
SET mypath=%~dp0*.html

set /p old=old string ?
set /p new=new string ?

::cycle for every file of specific folder where you have this script and all html files
for /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir /b /s "%mypath:~0,-1%"') do (

    ::copy to temp file line by line text with replacing of specific tags
    for /f "delims=" %%a in ('type "%%f"') do (
        set str=%%a
        set str=!str:%old%=%new%!
        >> tempfileXXX.txt echo !str!
    )

    ::empty the folder from where you copied
    break>%%f


    ::cycle over every line of temp file to copy back to old file
    for /f "delims=" %%a in (tempfileXXX.txt) do (
        set str=%%a
        >> "%%f" echo !str!
    )

    ::clear tempfile
    break>tempfileXXX.txt

)

::delete temp file
del tempfileXXX.txt
pause

You have to run this script.bat in the folder where you need do your actions. After running script will ask you for adding string which tags should be replaced and second with what tag it should be replaced. Remember that when using "<" and ">" signs for creating tag, you should enter before every "<" sign special "^" character. This will replace all html tags with php tags in arr .html files in your folder.

Example of usage:

Additional problems but not big:

• you must rerun script for closing tags , but you can now programm it on your own
• after script copy line by line you can notice, that script will remove newline characters, but that's not so huge problem to find out how
• I believe that script that I made above can be made smarter in way of no need of creating temp file.. more experienced programmers could comment below this post for this issue..