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
#!/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
Now, all you need to do is to execute the script like this:
./add-gtag.sh <your directory>
You can find this code here on GitHub too.
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