On Tuesday 26 August 2003 9:41 am, Shawn wrote: > I want to take an ls of a directory and dump it into an html file (pics) > for temporary use. Until I get a sight up with thumbnails (read lack of > time right now). > > What's the best way to do this? > > I tried a for loop, but it didn't work. > > any help on this would be appreciated. This might work: ls | awk ' BEGIN { print "<html>" print "<head>" print "<title>My Pron</title>" print "</head>" print "<body bgcolor=#ffffff>" } { print "<P><IMG SRC=" $1 "></P>" } END { print "</body>" print "</html>" }' > index.html -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ------------------------------------------ Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list