On 3 July 2010 11:09, Jozsi Avadkan <jozsi.avadkan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > it will be a site, were i put my notes I'll give you the benefit of the doubt based on the fact a quick Google search says you ask questions a lot and they don't all look like homework ;o) If you have the filenames in a file, you can do this: cat list.txt | ( function title { echo "<br><font size=4>$1</font><br>" ; } ; function ending { echo "<br>" ; }; function link { LINK=$1 ; LINKFILE=${LINK##*/} ; LINKNAME=${LINKFILE%.html} ; echo "<a href=\"$LINK\">$LINKNAME</a> |" ; } ; PREVTITLE="" ; TITLE="" ; while read line; do TITLE="${line%%/*}" ; if [ "$TITLE" != "$PREVTITLE" ]; then if [ "$PREVTITLE" != "x" ]; then ending "" ; fi ; title $TITLE ; PREVTITLE=$TITLE ; fi ; link $line ; done ; ) If you have a tree of links, you could replace "cat list.txt" with "find ./ -type f" The pretty version looks like this: ################################################## #!/bin/bash function title { echo "<br><font size=4>$1</font><br>" } function ending { echo "<br>" } function link { # prints out the link template given the path to link to LINK=$1 # delete the longest match of */ from the left side of the path, to give the filename (equivalent to running `basename $LINK`) LINKFILE=${LINK##*/} # delete the shortest match of .html from the right of the filename, to give the name of the link (equivalent to `echo $LINKNAME | sed -e 's/\.html//g'` LINKNAME=${LINKFILE%.html} echo "<a href=\"$LINK\">$LINKNAME</a> |" } # set the variables to detect a title change PREVTITLE="" TITLE="" # start processing STDIN while read line; do # deletes the longest match of /* from the right of the path, to generate the category title, equivalent to `echo $link | cut -d/ -f1` TITLE=${line%%/*} if [ "$TITLE" != "$PREVTITLE" ]; then if [ "$PREVTITLE" != "" ]; then # only print the <br> on title change and not at start of loop. ending fi title $TITLE PREVTITLE=$TITLE fi link $line done ########################################### -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines