On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > The sense I got was that Brian was managing a website with static > > .html pages. If I were to script this particular step, I would write a > > Python script to FTP the file down to /tmp, modify it, and then FTP it > > back up. > > > > You could also do this with a shell script, and use sed to do the > modification. > > I'm using a shell script and the sed option is what I'm pursuing at the > moment. > The easiest might be to have a separate template and and output file. The template would have something like MD5SUM_GOES_HERE where you want the md5 sum, then the command would simply be cat template.html | sed "s/MD5SUM_GOES_HERE/`md5sum direct.tar.bz2`/g" > output.html Sounds like you're already headed down another path, but if that doesn't work out, you've got other options. Michael -- http://fridleyfarmer.com -- The Fridley Farmer http://stuporglue.org -- Web programming, Moore's Ramblings III and other Miscellaneous Projects -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120715/20d298c1/attachment.html>