I did something similar when I wrote an experimental hypertext book. It turned out that using Perl to parse a source text file with simple markup was the solution. Would something like that work for you?
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, June 8, 2018 7:54 am, Chris Blanc wrote: >> I would write-append these lines to the file with the >> operator. >> >> >> I would use this for the pathname: >> http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Basename.html >> >> >> This might help with the timestamp: >> https://www.perl.com/pub/2003/03/13/datetime.html/ > > "touch" changes the timestamp of a file, but also creates non-existent > files, and a file created by touch has zero length. > > I have been using touch in a bash script to create groups of files simply > because it is an easy approach, and it has been years since I last did a > cover-to-cover read of Learning Perl. But then the contents of each file > must be created manually by copy-and-paste. > > I would prefer to use Perl to create the files with the desired headers. > Once I know how to do that, I can make use of Perl to add additional > file-specific material to each file, and save much time in manual editing. > > RLH > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -- http://www.dionysius.com/ _______________________________________________ Houston mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston Website: http://houston.pm.org/
