Re: Detecting file type extension in a bash script on linux

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.fa.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: 16 Jan 2004 21:18:58 GMT

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 at 10:17 GMT, B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to write a script that generates a html index of a
> directories contents. For this the scripts needs to detect the type of
> file (file extension) and accordingly put appropriate html code for an
> icon of that file type besite the file name. How may I do this ?
> sincerely

{
    echo "<html>
 <head>
  <title>Index of $PWD</title>
 </head>
 <body><ul>"

    for file in *
    do
      case $file in
          *.exe) img=exe.png; type="MS executable" ;;
          *.gif) img=gif.png; type="GIF image" ;;
          *.tgz|*.tar.gz) img=tgz.png; type="gzipped tar archive" ;;
          *.ps) img=postscript.png; type="PostScript file" ;;
          *[-.]sh) img=shell.png; type="shell script";;
          ## etc....
          *) type=unknown; img=default.png ;;
      esac
      printf "<li><a href=\"%s\">" "$file"
      printf "<img src=\"%s\" alt=\"%s\">\n" "$img" "$type"
    done
    printf " </ul>\n </body>\n</html>"
} > index.html 

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    ===================================================================
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