How to run gen-ng-list
Chris Ilias
<http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html>, I need to edit
a text file, then run a script called "gen-ng-list", both found in the
same directory. I'd like to know how to run gen-ng-list; so I don't
bother Reed to do it every time.
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Gervase Markham
> If I want to make an edit to the newsgroup list/descriptions at
> <http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html>, I need to edit
> a text file, then run a script called "gen-ng-list", both found in the
> same directory. I'd like to know how to run gen-ng-list; so I don't
> bother Reed to do it every time.
It's called gen-ng-info, and it's in the same directory
(mozilla-org/html/community/) as the data file you run it on and as
developer-forums.html.
It's a Perl script. You can tell this because the first line mentions
Perl. If you run it without parameters, it says:
gerv@otter:community$ perl gen-ng-info
Usage: gen-ng-info [inputfile] > [outputfile]
Which would imply that:
perl gen-ng-info raw-ng-list.txt > temp.html
would do the trick. You then cut and paste the contents of temp.html
into developer-forums.html.
Gerv
Chris Ilias
> perl gen-ng-info raw-ng-list.txt > temp.html
I've never run a perl script before; but that line looked like a
something for Cygwin. I tried it in Cygwin, and it worked. Thanks.
My temp.html did end up with some odd line breaks in each h2. For instance:
<h2 id="testing
">Testing
</h2>
Gervase Markham
> On 17/05/2007 7:46 AM, _Gervase Markham_ spoke thusly:
>> perl gen-ng-info raw-ng-list.txt > temp.html
>
> I've never run a perl script before; but that line looked like a
> something for Cygwin.
I carefully wrote it so that it would work in a DOS box too. :-)
> My temp.html did end up with some odd line breaks in each h2. For instance:
> <h2 id="testing
> ">Testing
> </h2>
No idea.
Gerv