Re: combine html pages for printing?

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (cfajohnson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: 29 Sep 2004 15:24:41 GMT

On 2004-09-28, Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:19:50 -0000, Mike staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
>> In article <2rtt2aF1eddghU1@uni-berlin.de>, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>>> On 2004-09-28, Mike wrote:
>>>> I have a bunch (100+) html pages I want to easily combine into a
>>>> single 'something' for printing. Anyone know of what program easily
>>>> does this?
>>> cat
>> Then I have tags '</html><html>...' and the printer still doesn't
>> understand what to do.
>
> I think Chris was being facetious.

    Not at all.

    I just tried it. I downloaded an e-book in HTML format (1632 from
    http://www.baen.com/library/), one file per chapter, 63 chapters
    in all.

cat 0671319728_*[0-9].htm > all.html

    I loaded all.html into Firefox and read the entire book without
    any problem. I printed a few chapters of the book without any
    problem as well. (Actaully, I had to rename a few of the chapters
    first to get them in the right order.)

    There were extraneous headings between the chapters, but the
    printed pages were quite readable.

> Or he didn't remember about the
> begin and end tags for the HTML document. Whatever, this is easily
> fixed with sed:
>
> echo "<html>" > start.txt
> echo "</html>" > end.txt
> cat *.html | sed -e 's/<html>//i' -e 's/</html>//i' > temp.html
> cat start.txt temp.html end.txt > final.html
> rm temp.html start.txt end.txt
>
> ...there may be a more efficient way of doing this, but that'll get rid
> of the spurious open and close tags. Other work (getting rid of
> redundant <head> tags?) may be more difficult. Whatever,

    Those extra tags don't affect anything. 

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