generate pages

Tools that generate a webpage from common commands like the numerous
unix commands or dos command line must be around but where should I
look?

I'm guessing someone has created a tool that will quickly generate a
web page from the unix `ls' command. Where the user could step into a
directory and say `ls | sometool' and `sometool' would generate a nice
index page with listed elements leading to the various items.

Probably lot of other more sophisticated things.

Can someone point me where I should be looking?

reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com wrote:

Tools that generate a webpage from common commands like the numerous
unix commands or dos command line must be around but where should I
look?

You should be able to google for a Perl (or PHP?) script that takes
input, runs it as a unix command and returns the output. I have seen
them. However, such a script would be a huge security risk. What is it
that you really want to accomplish? There has to be a better way to d
what you want to do.

On 5 Jan, 15:33, rea... (AT) newsguy (DOT) com wrote:

I'm guessing someone has created a tool that will quickly generate a
web page from the unix `ls' command.

It's embedded in Apache, and most convenient place to kep it too (it
re-generates on demand more easily that way). It's also customisable,
if you read the docs.

Otherwise it's a couple of lines of Python / Perl. Hardly worth the
effort of making a "tool" that did any more. You'd spend more effort
understanding its templating language than you would writing a file-
lister.

On 1/5/2008 7:33 AM, reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com wrote:

Tools that generate a webpage from common commands like the numerous
unix commands or dos command line must be around but where should I
look?

I'm guessing someone has created a tool that will quickly generate a
web page from the unix `ls' command. Where the user could step into a
directory and say `ls | sometool' and `sometool' would generate a nice
index page with listed elements leading to the various items.

Probably lot of other more sophisticated things.

Can someone point me where I should be looking?

Go to my <http://www.rossde.com/get_index.html>. Is this what you want?

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Scott Bryce <sbryce (AT) scottbryce (DOT) com> writes:

reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com wrote:
Tools that generate a webpage from common commands like the numerous
unix commands or dos command line must be around but where should I
look?

You should be able to google for a Perl (or PHP?) script that takes
input, runs it as a unix command and returns the output. I have seen
them. However, such a script would be a huge security risk. What is it
that you really want to accomplish? There has to be a better way to d
what you want to do.

Its a home lan never exposed to the internet so security is at least
quite a lot lower. I run no outward servers.

Sorry I went to sleep at the switch after posting the quesion and I
see several people have taken time to reply. I do appreciate that.

I can script enough to make something myself... I just stepped into a
directory while sorting out my lan visible pages and thought it would
be a nifty time saver to be able to just say `ls' into something and the
rest would be created.

In this case all the directories have an index.html behind them
already so just getting the directories into a list and addressed is
really all I had in mind... a few words about whats behind there with
the lead one being clicker for gravy ....

I guess I hoped I would be steered toward some nifty tools that would
be more elegant and usefull than my own scripting. I've managed
something now and sort of glad I did but my usage will be very light
after this go-around.

Andy Dingley <dingbat (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com> writes:

It's embedded in Apache, and most convenient place to kep it too (it
re-generates on demand more easily that way). It's also customisable,
if you read the docs.

This sounds interesting... for more than my current little project.
Can you give a search string that might get me started. Apache
documentation is quite plentiful.

Lars Eighner <usenet (AT) larseighner (DOT) com> writes:

lynx -source ./

will do it for the current directory.

That a nifty trick. I hadn't thought to do that. It at least
provides an outline to put together a little nicer look.

Thanks for the other tips too.

"David E. Ross" <nobody (AT) nowhere (DOT) not> writes:

Can someone point me where I should be looking?

Go to my <http://www.rossde.com/get_index.html>. Is this what you want?

That is nice... I was thinking of listing out a few directories that
contain index.html files already so they would be a web address.

I've got it working now... Thanks

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:29:38 +0100, <reader (AT) newsguy (DOT) com> wrote:

Andy Dingley <dingbat (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com> writes:

It's embedded in Apache, and most convenient place to kep it too (it
re-generates on demand more easily that way). It's also customisable,
if you read the docs.

This sounds interesting... for more than my current little project.
Can you give a search string that might get me started. Apache
documentation is quite plentiful.

I think this is what he meant:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_autoindex.html
--
Rik Wasmus