On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Shawn wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:41:06 -0500 > Shawn <sfertch at real-time.com> 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. > > > > Should probably clarify the for loop I tried... > > from within the directory I did: > > for i in ls; do echo '<P><IMG SRC="$i"/></P' >> file.html; done > > Then I was going to add a couple of lines to the top and bottom manually... > > It's a syntax issue, but am not certain of the best way to do this. for file in `ls`; do echo "<P><IMG SRC=\"$file\"></P>"; done _______________________________________________ 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