Script for migrating HTML tree into a single directory ?

[Pan Am]

My Web hosting service does not support multiple directories...
Can anyone suggest a Unix script that traverses a HTML tree and
produces a working "single directory" version of the same?

TIA

Pan Am

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Pan Am wrote:

My Web hosting service does not support multiple directories...
Can anyone suggest a Unix script that traverses a HTML tree and
produces a working "single directory" version of the same?

Don't know of any such script, but changing hosting service appears to
be a much better solution...

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[Stan Brown]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:41:50 +0200 in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Pan Am favored us with...

My Web hosting service does not support multiple directories...
Frankly, that statement stuns me. Or are you using some "hosting
service" that will wrap your actual pages in a lot of ads and
Javascript and similar crap?
Can anyone suggest a Unix script that traverses a HTML tree and
produces a working "single directory" version of the same?

It would be hard to do, unless you can guarantee up front that
different directories don't contain files with the same names.

But really, Web hosting isn't expensive these days, and any
"service" that limits you to a single directory is targeted at the
lower end. Since you have enough pages that you want a script because
hand editing is too cumbersome, you're really much better off with a
better host.

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[John Bokma]

Stan Brown <th************@fastmail.fm> wrote:

But really, Web hosting isn't expensive these days, and any
"service" that limits you to a single directory is targeted at the
lower end. Since you have enough pages that you want a script because
hand editing is too cumbersome, you're really much better off with a
better host.

Yup, with your own domain name like 19.95 USD/year (!)
(http://hostingforabuck.com/ )

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[Pan Am]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:13:35 -0400, Stan Brown wrote:

Frankly, that statement stuns me. Or are you using some "hosting
service" that will wrap your actual pages in a lot of ads and
Javascript and similar crap?
not really... having very limited needs I use a free service: no
ads, limited space, single directory. Very basic, but ok for me.
It would be hard to do, unless you can guarantee up front that
different directories don't contain files with the same names.
But really, Web hosting isn't expensive these days, and any
"service" that limits you to a single directory is targeted at the
lower end. Since you have enough pages that you want a script because
hand editing is too cumbersome, you're really much better off with a
better host.

The script could prefix filenames to avoid duplications...
Yet, if I cannot find it around I will look into paid services.

Thank you,

SJ

[Pertti Kosunen]

Pan Am wrote:

My Web hosting service does not support multiple directories...
Can anyone suggest a Unix script that traverses a HTML tree and
produces a working "single directory" version of the same?

Not perl but "wget --no-directories ..." might do the job.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Pertti Kosunen wrote:

Pan Am wrote:

My Web hosting service does not support multiple directories...
Can anyone suggest a Unix script that traverses a HTML tree and
produces a working "single directory" version of the same?

Not perl but "wget --no-directories ..." might do the job.

Such a limited hosting account does most likely not offer shell access...

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[Miguel Cruz]

Gunnar Hjalmarsson <no*****@gunnar.cc> wrote:

Pertti Kosunen wrote:

Pan Am wrote:

My Web hosting service does not support multiple directories...
Can anyone suggest a Unix script that traverses a HTML tree and
produces a working "single directory" version of the same?

Not perl but "wget --no-directories ..." might do the job.

Such a limited hosting account does most likely not offer shell access...

The user did ask for a unix script.

But anyway, you can run wget anywhere, and then transfer the results to the
web host.

miguel
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