Convert URLs into HTML links using sed?

Question

I\'m wondering if it\'s possible (recommended might be the better word) to use sed to convert URLs into HTML hyperlinks in a document. Therefore, it would look for things li

Answer 1

This might work.

sed -i -e "s|http[:]//[^ ]*|\0|g" yourfile.txt

It depends on the url being followed by a space (which isn't always the case).

You could do similar for e-mails with.

sed -i -e "s|\w+@\w+\.\w+(\.\w+)?|\0|g" yourfile.txt

Those might get you started. I suggest leaving off the -i option to test your output before making the changes inline.