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From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 23:39 Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in news:slrnhptulp.69a.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: >> 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. Oh Bit, please do not get mad at me, this is not critisism or non- appreciation. I do appreciate the script and the education very, very much. :) >> 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. :-) Of course. >> 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. I will supply all the files you need on my comcast personal web server space if that will help. Will give the shortcuts, and the script and output files for you to examime. Thanks! >> 4.) There are many, many baseurl links that are useless, for example: >> design.url:BASEURL > > Need to see the shortcut file. They are coming! >> 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 Sending what you need to see what needs to happen. http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/files/desktopshortcuts.zip http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/files/BT_Files.zip Okay, there are the desktop shortcuts and there are the 3 Bit Twister files. The one that contains the script, the text output, and the html output. Help me please Bit Twister, you are so close man! Thank you! -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: John Hasler on 15 Mar 2010 23:37 This should work: grep '^URL=http://' *.url | cut -f2- -d= > urls The change is the addition of a dash after "-f2". It tells cut to print the second field and all subsequent fields rather than only the second field. -- John Hasler jhasler(a)newsguy.com Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA
From: Bit Twister on 15 Mar 2010 23:53 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:39:06 -0500, Ohmster wrote: > Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com> wrote in > news:slrnhptulp.69a.BitTwister(a)cooker.home.test: > >>> 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. > > Oh Bit, please do not get mad at me, this is not critisism or non- > appreciation. I do appreciate the script and the education very, very > much. :) Hehehe, not getting mad. You have to decide to make the cosmetic changes. >> >> Need to see the shortcut file. > > They are coming! > http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/files/desktopshortcuts.zip Got them > Sending what you need to see what needs to happen. > http://home.comcast.net/~theohmster/files/BT_Files.zip No idea why I cannot unzip that one. [bittwister(a)cooker zip]$ unzip BT_Files.zip Archive: BT_Files.zip skipping: urls.html `PPMd' method not supported skipping: urls.txt `PPMd' method not supported skipping: geturls `PPMd' method not supported Does not matter. I can see the urls.html from last script I sent using your zipped desktopshortcuts.zip Lots of them work. Some you may have to tweak in the code. You will need to provide broken url for me to look at. Latest copy of code for us to work with. #!/bin/bash _out_fn=urls.html echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$_out_fn in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $_out_fn </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 $_out_fn"
From: Ohmster on 15 Mar 2010 23:57 John Hasler <jhasler(a)newsguy.com> wrote in news:87aau9szrp.fsf(a)thumper.dhh.gt.org: > This should work: > > grep '^URL=http://' *.url | cut -f2- -d= > urls > > The change is the addition of a dash after "-f2". It tells cut to print > the second field and all subsequent fields rather than only the second > field. Wow, that really worked. I was afraid that I would have to use the first output and redo it all over by hand because I don't know which urls are good and which are not. But this second version really seemed to do the trick, and on time too! I can now get this job done in a timely fashion, thank you very much John. I am so anxious to see what Bit Twister comes up with. He is working so hard on an html version that would be really cool, but it has too many bugs in it as of right now. I cannot say I blame him, he has nothing to work with so maybe once he gets a chance to see the url files that I have to work with, his script may be salvageable. I hope so, it sure does look promising, plus he did a great job on commenting it too so that I can learn from it. But I will hand it to you John, you got the job done as a text file and I can work with that. Thanks and goodnight. -- ~Ohmster | ohmster59 /a/t/ gmail dot com Put "messageforohmster" in message body (That is Message Body, not Subject!) to pass my spam filter.
From: Bit Twister on 16 Mar 2010 00:08
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:57:26 -0500, Ohmster wrote: > > I am so anxious to see what Bit Twister comes up with. Here is the script using John's grep command. #!/bin/bash _out_fn=urls.html _in_fn=urls.txt echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\"> <!-- save as index.html --> <!-- Enter file:$_out_fn in browser Location: --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Local Home Page $_out_fn </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\"> <ul> " > $_out_fn grep --no-filename '^URL=http://' *.url | cut -f2- -d= > $_in_fn while read -r _line ; do echo "<li><A href=\"$_line\">$_line</A>" >> $_out_fn done < $_in_fn echo " </li> </ul> </h1> </BODY> </HTML> " >> $_out_fn echo "Output in $_out_fn" |