CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Sandra Schlichting
Sandra Schlichting

Reputation: 25986

How to combine echo and find?

When I do the following find overrides index.html where I would have expected it would just append its results.

echo "<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/></head></body>" > index.html

find . -name "*.html" -exec echo "<a href=\"{}\">{}</a><br/>" \; >> index.html

It is suppose to find all html files and create an index of them.

Does anyone how to do this, ideally without using temp files?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 931

Answers (2)

4ndrew
4ndrew

Reputation: 16202

You have to escape all " characters in echo.

echo "<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\"/></head></body>" > index.html

find . -name "*.html" -exec echo "<a href=\"{}\">{}</a><br/>" \; >> index.html

Upvotes: 2

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785108

Problem is in your echo line, echo line should be:

echo '<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/></head></body>' > index.html

You have " inside your text and in your echo command boundary as well.

Upvotes: 2

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