Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Script help needed.
From: nospam@magma.ca (Rob Kroll)
References: <3A4F90BA.7D4FA443@hotmail.com> <3A4F9581.E44CC415@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <Xns901CC06DFnospammagmaca@64.26.141.46>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 00:53:01 GMT
Organization: Magma Communications Ltd.

David <thunderbolt01@hotmail.com> wrote in <3A4F9581.E44CC415@hotmail.com>:

>Oooops! Figured it out I had missed the <br> in the echo line. 
>
>#!/bin/sh
>#
>for f in `cat ~/mytmp` ;do
>echo "<td><a href="~/testtmp/$f">$f</a></td> <br>" \
>| /usr/bin/tee -a ~/mytest1.html ;
>done
>
>

As near as I can tell, neither of these could work quite right. At least, 
neither of them would be all that clean, from an HTML standpoint.

(IOW, your HTML skills appear lacking. While it will work, it is less 
graceful than it could be, and some lower quality browsers will cack when 
they see it.)

Also, it would appear from your scripts that you're overwriting 
~/mytest1.html with every line. (I'm not entirely sure here, as I'm much 
more used to MSDOS syntax than Linux syntax, but the echo command is pretty 
much universal.) You should be appending, instead.

Try instead:

#!/bin/sh

# clear the original.
echo '' > ~/mytest1.html;

#as a table isn't needed, you can just have a link on each line.
#do that now.
for f in 'cat ~/mytmp' ;do
  echo '<a href="~/testtmp/$f">$f</a><br>' >> ~/mytest1.html;
done;


or:

#!/bin/sh

#clear the original.
echo '' > ~/mytest1.html;

#set up the table
echo '<table>' >> ~/mytest1.html;

#add each line in the table
for f in 'cat ~/mytmp' ;do
  echo '<tr><td><a href="~/testtmp/$f">$f</a></td></tr>' >> ~/mytest1.html;
done;

#close the table. For some browsers.
echo '</table>' >> ~/mytest1.html;