I agree with this, though the cat part isn't needed: sed "s/MD5SUM_GOES_HERE/`md5sum direct.tar.bz2`/g" template.html > output.html ----- Eric F Crist On Jul 15, 2012, at 17:29:37, Michael Moore wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > The sense I got was that Brian was managing a website with static > > .html pages. If I were to script this particular step, I would write a > > Python script to FTP the file down to /tmp, modify it, and then FTP it > > back up. > > > > You could also do this with a shell script, and use sed to do the modification. > > I'm using a shell script and the sed option is what I'm pursuing at the moment. > > The easiest might be to have a separate template and and output file. The template would have something like MD5SUM_GOES_HERE where you want the md5 sum, then the command would simply be > > cat template.html | sed "s/MD5SUM_GOES_HERE/`md5sum direct.tar.bz2`/g" > output.html > > Sounds like you're already headed down another path, but if that doesn't work out, you've got other options. > > Michael > -- > http://fridleyfarmer.com -- The Fridley Farmer > http://stuporglue.org -- Web programming, Moore's Ramblings III and other Miscellaneous Projects > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 455 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120715/4ac02a3d/attachment-0001.pgp>