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From: Bit Twister on 15 Mar 2010 22:39 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:32:44 -0500, Ohmster wrote: >> Frap, I just noticed, you need to change the " to \" in the colors >> section of the header. :( > > Apparently you want me to escape something with a backslash in the color > section of the script here: > ><BODY > BGCOLOR="Wheat" > > > But what? What has to be escaped with the backslash Bit? The " was to be escaped. :) Saw the other post about category 3. Here try this one. _out_fn=urls.html echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$PWD in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $PWD</TITLE> <TR> <!-- Background wheat, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> <BODY BGCOLOR=\"Wheat\" LINK=\"Blue\" VLINK=\"Red\" ALINK=\"Green\" TEXT=\"Black\" <H4 ALIGN=\"CENTER\"> $PWD " > $_out_fn grep BASEURL= * > urls.txt while read -r _line ; do set -- $(IFS='=' ; echo $_line) shift echo "<TD><A href=\"$*\">$*</A></TD>" >> $_out_fn done < urls.txt echo " </TR> </h1> </BODY> </HTML> " >> $_out_fn echo "Output in $_out_fn"
From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 22:58 Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhptpfu.4nj.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > Hey, try it and see if url in a spaced file name shows up in the > output file. Wow, this is cool as hell Bit, but I am afraid it is too rough around the edges to be used. If this were cleaned up to be functional, I would love to have it, the thing looks so nice and all, but the output is kind of screwy. Here is how it looks: /home/ohmster/bench http://www.absolutearts.com/ Calendar.url:BASEURL Claude Claude Claude Claude Claude -.url:BASEURL -.url:BASEURL -.url:BASEURL http://www.artspan.com/ Photography.url:BASEURL Raton- Addison Raton Raton Raton Raton Raton Raton Raton Raton Raton Simon Fine Carter.url:BASEURL Chancery - Gallery.url:BASEURL Gallery.url:BASEURL Gallery.url:BASEURL Blue Dickson.url:BASEURL Blick Bibby.url:BASEURL Art.url:BASEURL Art Balderrama.url:BASEURL Klin.url:BASEURL Klin.url:BASEURL Lauderdal-Art Lauderdale-ArtFusion.url:BASEURL Lauderdale-Artists Lauderdale-Las Lauderdale-Max Richter.url:BASEURL Dangereuses.url:BASEURL Dangereuses.url:BASEURL Zimmermann Zimmermann.url:BASEURL Internationale BASEURL Museum Museum in Engelina Artists.url:BASEURL Museums.url:BASEURL Kong http://scorptest.free.fr/test_flip/ http://scorptest.free.fr/test_flip/JAPON/big.html Claude Artarama.url:BASEURL Lillo-Beaufrand.url:BASEURL of Fine Basel.url:BASEURL Art Steinbaum.url:BASEURL cisneros Rojas.url:BASEURL Meirelles Snitzer.url:BASEURL Art Gallery Decorator.url:BASEURL International Bruk Blossoms Savage Savage http://www.nobe67art.com/index.html?page http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ Sentinel Sentinel Sentinel Americas York- York-Damien York_Franklin York- York-John York-Marlborough York-PaceWildenstein.url:BASEURL York- Sonnabend.url:BASEURL York-Sotheby's.url:BASEURL Beach-ARCATURE Beach- GAVLAK.url:BASEURL Daniel Perrotin.url:BASEURL Morellet.url:BASEURL Laurent Maria Soulages Design.url:BASEURL Dho.url:BASEURL Milshtein.url:BASEURL Galler.url:BASEURL Blossoms Francisco-Byron Francisco-Lincart.url:BASEURL Fe-Collector's Fe-Crowell.url:BASEURL Fe- Hilario Fe-Jac Fe-Jack Fe-Karan Fe-LewAllen Fe-Nancy Fe-New Fe-Randall Gallery.url:BASEURL -.url:BASEURL Dickson.url:BASEURL http://www.xanadugallery.com/Art/SubjectList.asp?Inventory Wide All of those "Claude Claude Claude Claude" words are urls that are: file:///Z:/bench/Claude Which is how I have this directory shared with windows, mounted as a samba share as drive Z in Windows. Here is what needs improving and if you want to lend a hand, of course I would honor your assistance, but it will give me something to do in my spare time (If I ever get any), to look up this scripting and figure it out. This is what is great about it: 1.) Works great and fast. 2.) Nice colors in an html file with real html links. 3.) Totally clickable. This is what is really, really wrong with it and makes it not useable: 1.) urls need to be one per line, list fashion, rather than one, huge block of unbroken text. A carraige return needs to be inserted after each url to drop down to next line. 2.) It is not necessary or desirable to include the pwd in the html file. 3.) This really makes no sense, I see the word "Raton" as in Boca Raton repeated over and over, each one is a url to file:///Z:/bench/Raton 4.) There are many, many baseurl links that are useless, for example: design.url:BASEURL 5.) This is a *way* cool idea but I think the problem is that you have no desktop shortcuts to practice your script on, and I am quite sure that your code is based on sound principals. To make this easier if you would like to try out your own script, I have provided a zip file of all of the desktop shortcuts for you to experiment with or at least try the script with. Here you go: http://www.ohmster.com/~ohmster/temp/desktopshortcuts.zip Thank you Bit Twister. I sure would love to see this script rise to fruition, but for now, John's quick text links will have to do until I can get a better, working html generator script in place. Thanks for the time and the lesson! -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 23:00 Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhptrrt.59t.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > The " was to be escaped. :) > > Saw the other post about category 3. Here try this one. > I will try it now Bit, but there were some very serious errors in the script and I provided a url to a zip file of all the shortcut files for you to practice on if you want. The thing has problems, maybe this one will be better and leave out all of the useless basurl links and repetitive words and useless links that go nowhere. -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 23:14 Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhptrrt.59t.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > The " was to be escaped. :) > > Saw the other post about category 3. Here try this one. No good. This is no way useable or good. It is because you have no files to test it on I am sure. Here are the desktop shortcut files that I am working with: http://www.ohmster.com/~ohmster/temp/desktopshortcuts.zip Grab that zip file, unzip it to an empty test directory, and run your script on it, watch what happens. Not what you thought, eh? Me either. This needs fixing, BAD! Here is a section of John's output text file: http://www.absolutearts.com/ http://www.artcalendar.com/home.asp http://www.jeanclaudearts.com/index.html http://www.absolutearts.com/jboutrouil/ http://www.artnet.com/ http://www.artspan.com/ http://www.janeris.com/ Nice. Sweet. Other than missing out on the "=3" part of the url, this is very good. Here is a section of your urls.txt: AbsoluteArts.com.url:BASEURL=http://www.absolutearts.com/ Art Calendar.url:BASEURL=http://www.artcalendar.com/home.asp Art-Jean Claude Arts.url:BASEURL=http://www.jeanclaudearts.com/index.html ArtJean Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL=http://www.absolutearts.com/jboutrouil/ ArtJean Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL=http://www.absolutearts.com/login4favorites.html ArtJean Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL=about:blank ArtJean Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL=about:blank Artnet -.url:BASEURL=http://www.artnet.com/ Artnet -.url:BASEURL=http://trk.roitrax.com/artnet/rts.html?tver=4&cid= 3070&rts_id=291&cf=source&ccf=ccat&dh=www.artnet.com&dp=/ &ds=&dr=&rp=http&af=afid&kf=kfid&lf=lfid What in the hell is that? Why all of the repetition? Here is a section of your url.html file: /home/ohmster/bench http://www.absolutearts.com/ Calendar.url:BASEURL http://www.artcalendar.com/home.asp Claude Arts.url:BASEURL http://www.jeanclaudearts.com/index.html Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL http://www.absolutearts.com/jboutrouil/ Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL http://www.absolutearts.com/login4favorites.html Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL about:blank Claude Boutrouille -.url:BASEURL about:blank -.url:BASEURL http://www.artnet.com/ -.url:BASEURL http://trk.roitrax.com/artnet/rts.html?tver 4&cid 3070&rts_id 291&cf source&ccf ccat&dh www.artnet.com&dp /&ds &dr &rp http&af afid&kf kfid&lf lfid -.url:BASEURL http://trk.roitrax.com/artnet/rts.html?tver 4&cid 3070 &rts_id 291&cf source&ccf ccat&dh www.artnet.com&dp /&ds &dr &rp http&af All of it runs together, there is no line drop to next line for each separate url, many urls go nowhere such as "file:///Z:/bench/Claude% 20Boutrouille%20-.url:BASEURL% 20http://www.absolutearts.com/login4favorites.html" Heh, not a very useful url to say the least. The underlines in the urls form one continuous line so that I have no idea where one url ends and another begins. Plus, many of them are senseless. What can you do with a url like this one? "dickson.url:BASEURL% 20http://www.markdicksonstudios.com/Artiststatement.html" Too late for me now, have to go sleep for work early tomorrow. Play with the zip file url files and see for yourself what happens. I am sure that once you have the url files on your drive, all you need do is tweak one or two items and the output would be nice. Thank you Bit Twister, for taking the time and for helping me get an education. I will check back tomorrow, goodnight! -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: Bit Twister on 15 Mar 2010 23:27
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:58:47 -0500, Ohmster wrote: > Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in > news:slrnhptpfu.4nj.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > >> Hey, try it and see if url in a spaced file name shows up in the >> output file. > > Wow, this is cool as hell Bit, but I am afraid it is too rough > around the edges to be used. If this were cleaned up to be functional, I > would love to have it, the thing looks so nice and all, but the output is > kind of screwy. Here is how it looks: > > /home/ohmster/bench http://www.absolutearts.com/ Calendar.url:BASEURL > Claude Claude Claude Claude Claude -.url:BASEURL -.url:BASEURL > > All of those "Claude Claude Claude Claude" words are urls that are: > file:///Z:/bench/Claude > > Which is how I have this directory shared with windows, mounted as a > samba share as drive Z in Windows. Here is what needs improving and if > you want to lend a hand, of course I would honor your assistance, but it > will give me something to do in my spare time (If I ever get any), to > look up this scripting and figure it out. > > This is what is great about it: > 1.) Works great and fast. > 2.) Nice colors in an html file with real html links. > 3.) Totally clickable. > > This is what is really, really wrong with it and makes it not useable: > 1.) urls need to be one per line, list fashion, rather than one, huge > block of unbroken text. A carraige return needs to be inserted after each > url to drop down to next line. Then you change html controls to use list instead of what I picked. > 2.) It is not necessary or desirable to include the pwd in the html file. Hey, it is your code on your system, you take it out. :-) > 3.) This really makes no sense, I see the word "Raton" as in Boca Raton > repeated over and over, each one is a url to file:///Z:/bench/Raton Unless I can see the file, I can not see the fix. > 4.) There are many, many baseurl links that are useless, for example: > design.url:BASEURL Need to see the shortcut file. > 5.) This is a *way* cool idea but I think the problem is that you have no > desktop shortcuts to practice your script on, and I am quite sure that > your code is based on sound principals. To make this easier if you would > like to try out your own script, I have provided a zip file of all of the > desktop shortcuts for you to experiment with or at least try the script > with. Here you go: > http://www.ohmster.com/~ohmster/temp/desktopshortcuts.zip Ok, try this one #!/bin/bash _out_fn=urls.html echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$PWD in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $PWD</TITLE> <TR> <!-- Background wheat, links blue (unvisited), navy (visited), red (active) --> <BODY BGCOLOR=\"Wheat\" LINK=\"Blue\" VLINK=\"Red\" ALINK=\"Green\" TEXT=\"Black\" <H4 ALIGN=\"CENTER\"> $PWD <ul> " > $_out_fn grep --no-filename BASEURL= *.url > urls.txt while read -r _line ; do set -- $(IFS='=' ; echo $_line) shift echo "<li><A href=\"$*\">$*</A>" >> $_out_fn done < urls.txt echo " </li> </ul> </h1> </BODY> </HTML> " >> $_out_fn echo "Output in $_out_fn" |