Hi,

Can someone show me some bash scripting code that will generate a bunch of html pages based on filenames from a list of names in a text file?

For example, I have a file called categories, and in that text file there will be one category per line (no separation, just a line break or Carriage Return ) and I would like to run a bash script against that category file, and would want the output to be to create an html document using the appropriate html markup for each category in that file. Of course, I would want the pages to be created in the directory in which the script runs from. The html markup would be just an empty html doc, with the basic html, head, title, and body tags (open and close tags)

Thanks alot guys!
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Say file judeans has...

reg
stan
loretta

cat judeans | sed 's/^/cp template /g' | sed 's/$/\.html/g'

Gives output:

cp template reg.html
cp template stan.html
cp template loretta.html

and to make it just go ahead and create them from 'template' (which you have prepared earlier) do

cat judeans | sed 's/^/cp template /g' | sed 's/$/\.html/g' > myprog; sh myprog;

Remember to create "template" first, obviously. And on the off chance that the user running the command has no write permission on the directory, use 'touch' to create a file and chmod it appropriately. For example in a separate commandline burst or indeed if you wanna juggle like a juggler have a go at shoving it into one commandline burst (the "tee" funnel thingy will probably be useful for such a purpose).

Thank you very much!