hi,
i have some files which r link to the directory

and to refer these files there is a html link on my web page

At the moment there are only 2 active links. I created a soft link to the original source at very first time, the owner of these documents can change the content and update anytime after that . As long as they don't change the file name, the updated info will reflect immediately on the web.

my problem is : i would like to create a dymamic update from original source without creating the soft link at the first time, which means everytime the document owner check in their files in the following directory, it immediately created an active link on the web. Eventually all the cell names that I already created on the html table will be active when the owner checkin their .doc files in the directory structure below.


plz help

sushil_d10,

This sounds like an DHTML thing you want to do. I think it would be cleaner then writing scripts. But if you want to continue with scripts; You need to creat a script that would be ran from the crontab. Something like this:

#!/bin/sh
#
if [[ -f /tmp/list_file ]]
then
rm -rf /tmp/list_file
fi
for user in `cat list_user`
do
cd ~$user/directory/
for files in `ls *.doc`
do
if [[! -f <location of files to share o the web>/$files ]]
then
ln -s $files <location of the files web>$files
echo <location of the files /$files >>/tmp/list_file
fi
done
done

Then you would need script that will read the .tmp/list_file and populate you web page with sed and awk. i have not tested this script. I hope this would help.