convert ls -l output to html [solved]

graysky · 2011-01-23 13:44:33

My ISP's webserver which I am using as a repo doesn't allow live dir listings. In other words, if a user simply browses to the site root in a browser, a message comes up telling them the pages doesn't exist.

The structure of my site is trivial:

/
/i686
/x86_64

I'd like a nice script that simply converts the output of an "ls -l" to html with basic click-able links for the files and simply prints the date/time stamp and file size.

Example:

file1 Jan 15 16:55 25M
file2 Jan 15 16:55 25M
file3 Jan 15 16:55 25M

I was thinking about something like:

#!/bin/bash
date >> /dev/shm/ls.html
echo "<br>" >> /dev/shm/ls.html
for i in * ; do
    #echo item: $i
    echo "$i" "<br>" >> /dev/shm/ls.html
done

Is there something out there that's pre-made and more visually appealing? If not, how can I store and parse the output of an ls -lh to the following format (for each item):

filename datestamp size

EDIT: From what I'm finding via google, perl is probably the right scripting language (not bash) to accomplish this task. I know 0 about perl

Last edited by graysky (2011-01-23 20:43:17)

falconindy · 2011-01-23 15:10:21

GNU stat would work just fine for this. Do not parse ls.

exec > /path/to/output.html

printf '<html>\n<head>\n<body>\n<table>\n'

for file in *; do
  stat "$file" -c '<td>%A</td><td>%U</td><td>%G</td><td>%B</td><td>%y</td><td>%n</td>'
done

printf '</table>\n</body>\n</head>\n</html>\n

This should get you started.

Last edited by falconindy (2011-01-23 15:11:04)

dmz · 2011-01-23 15:11:21

You can use tree, it'll export to html.

graysky · 2011-01-23 20:42:57

@falconindy - thanks for the skeleton. I may play more with it.
@dmz - Tree is very nice. Thanks for the suggestion.

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#1 2011-01-23 13:44:33

convert ls -l output to html [solved]

#2 2011-01-23 15:10:21

Re: convert ls -l output to html [solved]

#3 2011-01-23 15:11:21

Re: convert ls -l output to html [solved]

#4 2011-01-23 20:42:57

Re: convert ls -l output to html [solved]

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