Overview
This article describes the basic concepts for html generation with the linux dash command interpreter.
Example: Video Collection
The dash command line interpreter can be used to generate video player websites for each video in a directory. |
| Example Video Collection |
Dash commands
for - loop through files
Use the for-command to loop through every file. The example below loops through all mp4-files.for filename in *.mp4;do echo $filename; done
The for-command can also be used to generate video thumbnails and background-images with a video formats converter.
while - loop through code lines
Use the while-command to loop through every line of a file. The example below will read the html template file template.html and loop trough all its lines and replace the SSI-variable *VARIABLE* by the dash variable $variable. In this example the output file is vidcenter.html. while read line;do
line=$(echo $line | sed "s/\*VARIABLE\*/$variable/")
echo $line >> "vidcenter.html"
done < "template.html"
