Small, Sharp Software Tools

Your Turn

These exercises will help you build on what you learned in this chapter. They’ll help you improve your scripts, too.

1. Add a rule to your Makefile that uses scp or rsync to transfer the files to your web server.

2. Modify your website creation script to create a default CSS file with some basic styles.

3. Modify your website creation script to accept a value for the site’s name and inject it into the <title> tag of the template.

4. Use the date command to embed a copyright date in the footer of the site’s template.

5. Combine the Makefile with the website creation script so that each new site has a templates and pages directory, as well as the Makefile.

6. In your setup script, add code that looks for .bash_profile, backs it up, and replaces it with ...