Unix users: awk question

["Michael Collier" <mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu>]

Please e-mail responses directly to me - I'll make solutions available to
interested subscribers.

For all of the html files in a directory, I need to get the contents of the
<title> tag copied into an <h1> tag. Right now I'm looking at using awk to
try to do this. Empty <h1> tags exist in the html files.

I have the following right now:

ls /htmldir/*.html > /tmp/html.list
  for file in `cat /tmp/html.list`
 do
      awk '/<\/title>/ { IFS="</?title>"; field = $2; IFS=" " }
           /<h1> *<\/h1>/ { print $1 field $2 }
           {print}' $file
  done

However this script only creates an empty <h1> tag and moves everything into
one file.

I'm not tied to using awk, I can use perl or other scripting tool if there
is a better way. Thanks for any suggestions - please e-mail me directly as
this is probably not of wide-ranging techwr-l interest.

The technical writing problem this is intended to solve: a spec author has a
bunch of tables published at html, which are titled but the title does not
appear in the body of the html file.

Thanks,

................................................................
Michael Collier, Technical Writer                  Office: N636
Information Systems Laboratory      http://isl.arlut.utexas.edu/
Applied Research Laboratories: The University of Texas at Austin
Voice: 512-835-3408            mailto:mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu
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