#1 of 1: More Doctor Who than Doctor Dre (cromis) Wed Jan 15 '97 (21:25) 78 lines Well, this doesn't seem like a popular topic :-) ... but it seems the right place for something I thought a few people might be interested in - two little gadgets for auto-updating web pages with either a time stamp or a login counter, although there are probably other wyas you could use them. timestamp and logincounter both work by searching for a comment looking like this or this in the supplied inputfile, (writing the file as they go into outputfile), and when they find one of those comments, they replace the ENTIRE LINE with something like this: 16/01/97 or this 167 so that when your page is viewed just the bit between the comments will be seen. It'll do this for every occurrence of them in your supplied file, which in the case of logincounter will increment the count repeatedly so don't do it. Usage is: timestamp -switch inputfile outputfile where -switch can be -t Stamp time (hh:mm:ss) only -T Stamp time (hh:mm) only -d Stamp date (dd/mm/yy) only UK-style -D Stamp date (mm/dd/yy) US-style -b Stamp both date (dd/mm/yy) and time (hh:mm) with a space between -B Stamp both date (mm/dd/yy) and time (hh:mm) with a space between and logincounter inputfile outputfile in the directory where a file .logincounter exists and has an integer on the first line (like the .counter file, but probably best to put it in your home directory) Or just invoke them without arguments for instructions. If you just want to have a timestamp and/or a logincounter without worrying about all that that will update every time you log in, add the relevant lines like this: I last logged in at and that makes it times since I put in the counter. to the file you want updating, and then edit your .profile, adding the following lines to the end: timestamp -B WEB/mypage.html WEB/mypage.new mv WEB/mypage.new WEB/mypage.html logincounter WEB/mypage.html WEB/mypage.new mv WEB/mypage.new WEB/mypage.html chmod 644 WEB/mypage.html where WEB/mypage.html is the page to update, and -B is the type of timestamp you want. Then create a file .logincounter in your home directory with just the character 1 (or whatever number you want to start at) in it, and then copy the files from my directory like this: cp ~cromis/logincounter . cp ~cromis/timestamp . and bob's yer uncle, instant (minor) neat trick. (I don't know if you need to have . in your PATH to do tha, but perhaps some UNIX genius can tell me that) If you want the source type cp ~cromis/source/*.c . Do what you like with them; if you have any problems email me, although you use them at your own risk. (it's 5:30am here so I'm a little tired :-) Note also that if you have any lines that are more than 5000 characters in your file it will truncate them to 5000 so watch it, all you people you like to string your entire page onto one line. Thanks!

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