Automatically Change Links from Absolute to Relative
In this example I’m showing one way to quickly convert all a href and img src paths from absolute to relative. It’s quite a time saver, but I suggest committing your latest changes before trying anything here! If you aren’t using a version control system, make a backup somewhere… please! Note: Both of these commands are one-liners.
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#BSD Version (Mac): find . -path './.git' -prune -o -type f -exec sed -i '' -E "s/(href|src) *= *([\"'])(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?mysite\.(org|com)\//\1=\2\//g" {} \; #GNU Version: find . -path './.git' -prune -o -type f -exec sed -i -r "s/(href|src) *= *([\"'])(https?:\/\/)?(www\.)?mysite\.(org|com)\//\1=\2\//g" {} \; #You may consider using {} +; instead of {} \; |
In the examples/results below, I tried to target most situations. You should see subtle differences between each example.
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-<a href="https://www.mysite.org/basic_skills">This is another link</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This is another link</a> -<a href="https://www.mysite.org/basic_skills">This is another link</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This is another link</a> -<a href="http://www.mysite.org/basic_skills">This is another link</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This is another link</a> -<a href="http://mysite.org/basic_skills">This is another link</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This is another link</a> -<a href="www.mysite.org/basic_skills">This link points to http://www.mysite.org/basic_skills</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This link points to http://www.mysite.org/basic_skills</a> -<a href="mysite.org/basic_skills">This is another link</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This is another link</a> -<a href="http://www.mysite.com/basic_skills">This is the last link</a> +<a href="/basic_skills">This is the last link</a> -<img src="https://www.mysite.org/testing123.jpg"> +<img src="/testing123.jpg"> |