script needed: directory -> html with links to all files in dire

flamesrock · 03-20-2005, 08:23 PM

Hi,

I have a directory on my server with a huge number of mp3 song demos (all of them legal). What I want to do is, instead of having a directory listing which displays only part of the song title, have a script or program generate an html file with links to each song, so that you can see the whole title.

Since this is shared hosting, I don't think I can do anything with root.

ideas?

-thanks

huibert.alblas · 03-21-2005, 11:59 AM

3-liner in Bash :-)

From the directory containing the mp3 files:

Code:

echo "<html><head><title>My MP3 List</title></head><body>Please klick these Links :-)<br>" > index.html
ls *.mp3 | while read MP3NAME; do echo "<p><a href=\"$MP3NAME\">$MP3NAME</a></p>" >> index.html ; done; 
echo '<p>Thats all folks!' >> index.html

And thats it.

JohnBoy · 03-22-2005, 01:47 AM

Ignore me -- try the script from Huibert!

You ought to be able to do this with a Perl script if Perl is installed on the box and you have a cgi-bin directory (for executable scripts). But if the contents of the dir are not changing you don't need the server side support. What you'd need -- if you have a lot of entries -- is a directory listing. If directory browsing is enabled, just browsing the dir will get you an HTML-encoded list of songs. What you'd need to change is the link text, since the href value would be the full song title.