text files in folder and display them as links on html page using AWK

eiefriends8 · 04-24-2017, 03:27 PM

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.

hydrurga · 04-24-2017, 03:35 PM

Hi, eiefriends8, and welcome to LQ.

What have you tried so far?

eiefriends8 · 04-24-2017, 03:40 PM

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.

hydrurga · 04-24-2017, 04:12 PM

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.

grail · 04-25-2017, 03:17 AM

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.

Turbocapitalist · 04-25-2017, 04:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydrurga

...
Once you've achieved that, you can then start going through the stages of populating it.

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

eiefriends8 · 04-26-2017, 11:01 AM

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.

Turbocapitalist · 04-26-2017, 11:05 AM

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.

eiefriends8 · 04-26-2017, 11:15 AM

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.

Turbocapitalist · 04-26-2017, 11:42 AM

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.

Code:

man awk

eiefriends8 · 04-26-2017, 11:55 AM

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.

Turbocapitalist · 04-26-2017, 12:36 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.

ondoho · 04-26-2017, 12:44 PM

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...