#!/bin/bash
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#auto-index.sh
#
#Index any directory, print contents to a clickable html file
#
#----USE WITH CARE!-----
#
#I created this script as a way to effortlessly manage a web fileserver.
#Simply place all files in nested folders, and run this script from the parent.
#
#Usage: on individual folders:
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# bash auto-index.sh /path/to/folder
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# to index an entire site:
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# find /parent/folder/ -mindepth 1 -type d -exec bash auto-index.sh {} \;
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#The script will iterate through every subfolder, index it's files, and create an index.html within that folder.
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#The top-level index.html (in the parent folder) is not affected. Works well from cron.
#
#To reverse the process, i.e. remove all files called index.html recursively:
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# find /parent/folder -mindepth 2 -type f -name index.html -exec rm {} \;
#
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#Create variable 'INDEX@ by listing all files in the specified directory and piping them to sed
#sed creates a list of clickable links. html files are excluded from indexing.
INDEX=`ls -1 --ignore="index.html" $1 | sed "s/^.*/\<a\ href=\"&\"\>&\<\\/a\>\<br\>/"`
echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title>`basename $1`.html</title>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/nlb.css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" />
</head>
<h3>/`basename $1`/</h3>
$INDEX
<br>
<a href="/index.html">/home/</a>
</body></html>" > $1/index.html
#Indicate success
echo "$1 indexed!"