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04-24-2017, 02:27 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
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text files in folder and display them as links on html page using AWK
Hi,
I have a bunch of text files in folder and want to display them as links on HTML page using AWK code.
Thanks,
Kunal.
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04-24-2017, 02:35 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pictland
Distribution: Linux Mint 21 MATE
Posts: 8,048
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Hi, eiefriends8, and welcome to LQ.
What have you tried so far?
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04-24-2017, 02:40 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
Posts: 5
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I'm trying to list all the txt files in the directory with this command.
ls | grep -v '\.pdf'
My idea is when it lists all the text files, should be taken into a <li> tag and display them on the web page.
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04-24-2017, 03:12 PM
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#4
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pictland
Distribution: Linux Mint 21 MATE
Posts: 8,048
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Before you get into the business of actually populating the HTML page with data, your first move might be to write down an example of the target html that you're aiming for (do this with only two actual links to start off with to keep it simple). I'm assuming that you're going to use HTML5.
e.g.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Text file links</title>
...
Then save this to an .html file and test it by browsing to it.
Once you've achieved that, you can then start going through the stages of populating it.
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04-25-2017, 02:17 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Perth
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 10,037
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Do not use ls as a means of populating. Perhaps try a simple find command or if all in a single directory a glob would easily accomplish the task.
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04-25-2017, 03:49 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Linux Mint, Devuan, OpenBSD
Posts: 7,753
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hydrurga
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Once you've achieved that, you can then start going through the stages of populating it.
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I usually just pipe my results into tidy and let it do the work of making proper HTML of it:
Code:
find ... | awk '...' | tidy -asxml > somefile.html
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04-26-2017, 10:01 AM
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#7
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
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Could you please help me out with the awk code.? I have a bunch of text files like 1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt and display them as links on html page.
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04-26-2017, 10:05 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Linux Mint, Devuan, OpenBSD
Posts: 7,753
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Sure, but show what you've been able to figure out so far for awk so we have a starting point to begin with and so we can see which approach you wish to try.
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04-26-2017, 10:15 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
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find . -type f -name "*.txt" | awk '...' | tidy -asxml > somefile.html. I would like to know what to write in the awk code. As of now, find command displays all my text files. Now, I want to display the txt files as links on the html page.
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04-26-2017, 10:42 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Linux Mint, Devuan, OpenBSD
Posts: 7,753
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Ok. Here is something to work from:
Code:
awk '{ print $0 $0 }'
Since there is nothing before the braces { } every input line is selected. So what's between the braces happens each and every time.
See various tutorials for more information
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-awk1/
And don't forget the manual page for the version on your particular system.
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04-26-2017, 10:55 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2017
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That was awesome, but I want my all .txt files to be links. So when I click on the link, text file will open on the html page itself. I want to see the content of my txt files on the html page itself.
something like <li><a href=>textfile.txt</a><li>
I want to make my text file as a link. How can I write that in awk.
Last edited by eiefriends8; 04-26-2017 at 11:08 AM.
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04-26-2017, 11:36 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2005
Distribution: Linux Mint, Devuan, OpenBSD
Posts: 7,753
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Indeed. How can you write that in awk?  Rummage through the two previous links and the one manual page and investigate how to use the print or printf functions.
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1 members found this post helpful.
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04-26-2017, 11:44 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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so what you need is a
Code:
<li><a href="filename.txt">filename.txt</a></li>
for every file found?
the whole list wrapped in something to make it a proper html document?
right?
edit:
oops, this was discussed already.
slight code correction, now i await development...
Last edited by ondoho; 04-26-2017 at 11:46 AM.
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