OP said nothing of CGI... That is your own constraint. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: SED can't be a CGI script though. And like I said, this is simplifying. My CGI scripts usually do a bunch more, but I typed up the part that's relevant. On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Eric Crist wrote: > Using perl for THIS is silly. sed can do everything you'er doing with perl. > > ----- > Eric F Crist > > > > On Jul 14, 2012, at 22:03:01, Yaron wrote: > >> I use perl GCI for this kind of stuff all the time. Basically make your html file (lets call it file.html) and put a marker in there, like %%MD5SUM%% or something. Then your CGI does this: >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl >> $|=1; >> $file="file.html"; >> chomp($md5=`md5sum direct.tar.bz2`); >> >> open(F, $file); >> while(<F>) { >> s/%%MD5SUM%%/$md5/ if (/%%MD5SUM%%/); >> print; >> } >> >> close (F); >> exit(0); >> >> That's extremely simplified with no full paths or strict mode or error checking, but you get the idea. >> >> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Brian Wood wrote: >> >>> I'm wondering how to automate something further. Currently I >>> use the following commands (in a script) when I publish a >>> new version of the software. >>> md5sum direct.tar.bz2 | tee md5checksum >>> cat md5checksum | xclip -sel clip >>> After that I edit an html file by hand and paste the new >>> checksum into the file. Once in a while I forget to do that >>> step. So I'd like to figure out how to improve the process. >>> What do you suggest? Thanks in advance. >>> Shalom, >>> Brian Wood >>> Ebenezer Enterprises >>> http://webEbenezer.net >>> >> >> >> -Yaron >> >>_____________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -Yaron -- _____________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120714/17dc5a37/attachment-0001.html>