text files in folder and display them as links on html page using AWK
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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.
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.
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.
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 12:08 PM.
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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