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

you can use awk

awk '
{
 for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
   if ($i ~ /http/){
      $i=""$i""
   }
 }
} 1 ' file

output

$ cat file
blah http://something.com test http://something.org

$ ./shell.sh
blah http://something.com test http://something.org