May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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How to do it...
This Bash script will generate an HTML album page:
#!/bin/bash
#Filename: generate_album.sh
#Description: Create a photo album using images in current directory
echo "Creating album.."
mkdir -p thumbs
cat <<EOF1 > index.html
<html>
<head>
<style>
body
{
width:470px;
margin:auto;
border: 1px dashed grey;
padding:10px;
}
img
{
margin:5px;
border: 1px solid black;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<center><h1> #Album title </h1></center>
<p>
EOF1
for img in *.jpg;
do
convert "$img" -resize "100x" "thumbs/$img"
echo "<a href=\"$img\" >" >>index.html
echo "<img src=\"thumbs/$img\" title=\"$img\" /></a>" >> index.html
done
cat <<EOF2 >> index.html
</p>
</body>
</html>
EOF2
echo Album generated to index.html
Run the script as follows: ...