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generate.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,33 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-set -ex
+FILES="$1/*.txt"
+DEST=$2
+mkdir -p "$DEST"
+for f in $FILES
+do
+#  echo "Processing $f file..."
+  # take action on each file. $f store current file name
+#  cat $f
 
-# YOUR CODE HERE
+  # Parsing doc
+  headerline=$(head -1 "$f")
+  restofdoc=$(tail -n +3 "$f")
+  # end of parsing doc
+  filename=$(basename "$f")
+  filename="${filename%.*}"
+  # Copy html file
+  cp template.html "$DEST"/"$filename".html
+
+  # Replace
+  /bin/sed -i "s/{{title}}/${headerline}/" "$DEST"/"$filename".html
+  /bin/sed -i -e "s|{{body}}|$restofdoc|g" "$DEST"/"$filename".html
+  /bin/sed -i -e "s|https[:]//[^ ]*.com|<a href=\"\0\">\0</a>|g" "$DEST"/"$filename".html
+#  /bin/sed -i -e "s|(http|ftp|https)://([\w_-]+(?:(?:\.[\w_-]+)+))([\w.,@?^=%&:/~+#-]*[\w@?^=%&/~+#-])?|url|g" "$DEST"/"$filename".html
+
+done
+#cat template.html
+
+# ls Desktop\Dropbox\CT\Sys\startup-systems\vm\static
+# ./generate.sh examples/simple/ output/
+# Always have to run:  sed -i 's/\r$//' testscript
+# for dos2unix