Re: [Sheflug] HTML Logs

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 11:58, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Can any of our Perl or scripting people out there explain what's wrong
> with this script ?
> 
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo `<h1>Log files in /var/log</h1><p>`
> echo `<table border=1> <tr><th>Name<th>date<th>size<tr>
> ls -ld /var/log/* |  \
> sed -e "s/^[-rwxds]*[ 0-9]* \([a-z0-9A-Z]* *\)\{2\} \([0-9]*\)
> \([A-Za-z]\{3\} *[0-9]\{1,2\} *[0-9:]*\)\/\4\5>\5<\/a><td>\3<td
> align=RIGHT>
> \2<tr>/"echo `</table>`
> 
> 
> 
> it bombs out with the following error message..
> 
> ./logfile: line 8: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
> ./logfile: line 9: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> 
> 
> What I'm trying to do it turn my logs in /var/log into HTML pages so
> that I can view them in a web browser.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Richard


ignoring the sed for now I don't think you should be using backticks to
quote your echo statements, these should be ' or ".

 Dave.

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