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Add Google Analytics Tracking Code to All Pages Automatically

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If you have many HTML pages in a directory, adding Google Analytics tracking code to all of them can be a bit frustrating.

In this short tutorial, I show you how to do it with a bash script that automatically does the job.

First, copy the code from your Google Analytics console, and paste it to a file named google-analytics.

Then, write the following code to a file, say add-gtag.sh and give it the execution permission:

chmod u+x ./add-gtag.sh
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#!/bin/bash # From: dotenx.com # description:  # Add Google Analytics to all HTML files in a directory. Google Analytics code should be in a file called google-analytics in the same directory as this script. # usage: # ./add-gtag.sh directory # Tested on Mac-zsh directory="$1" if [ -d "$directory" ]; then for file in "$directory"/*.html; do if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then sed -i.bak '/<head>/r google-analytics' $file fi done else echo "Directory not found." fi rm $directory/*.bak
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Now, all you need to do is to execute the script like this:

./add-gtag.sh <your directory>
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You can find this code here on GitHub too.

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