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Old 09-25-2010
Linux Script create index.html file

I need a script that can do this:
  • A script that searches all directories and subdirectories for .html files
  • When a .html file is found it creates a index.html file in that folder.
  • It then edits the index.html file and inserts links to all of the .html files that are in that folder into the body.
  • If no .html files are found, it searches for folders.
  • It then creates a index.html file with links to all of the folders.

What would be the best way to do this? Do you need more information?

Thank You
# 2  
Old 09-25-2010
Are we doing your homework? How far have you gotten?
# 3  
Old 09-25-2010
I haven't did much with scripts before. I am still researching best ways to do it.

Here is how I was thinking I will do it, but I haven't got the script written yet:

Use the `find` command to locate every directory within the parent tree, including the top directory. Then, inside every one of the found directories, I will use `find` again (with a -maxdepth of 1) to locate all directories & html files present; then I'll create the index.html file, and insert (probably just using `echo`) a <href=link> to each directory and/or html file present within my current directory.
# 4  
Old 09-25-2010
I'll get you started a bit.

Code:
 find / | grep *.html

You'll have to do a foreach on the above to get this part. For the actual writing of the file

Code:
 echo "<a href\=$_>$_<\/a>"  >> destination.html"

I don't want to give you all the answers. Just trying to help out with syntaxes.
# 5  
Old 09-25-2010
Thank You. And no, this is not for homework. It is for a personal web server that I set up so that I can watch all of my movies in WebM format with my laptop. I already wrote a script that finds all of the WebM files and creates a html file for each webm file so that I can view them. Now I just am figuring out how to make indexes of all of the files.
# 6  
Old 09-25-2010
Some hints for you.

A script that searches all directories and subdirectories for .html files

Code:
find /ALL_DIRECTORIES -name "*.html" -type f -print

When a .html file is found it creates a index.html file in that folder.
Code:
find /ALL_DIRECTORIES -name "*.html" -type f -exec dirname {} \; |sort -u |while read dir
do
  if [ -f "$dir"/index.html ] 
  then
     touch "$dir"/index.html
  fi
done

for rest, you need tell us what type of links you need write in the index.html files for these .html files and folders.
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