Wow that is amazing, thank you.  Is there a way to keep the directory
structure or adjust the formatting?



On 31 July 2011 12:24, Harold Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can generate links to a bunch of files using "find":
>
> cd /path/to/parent_directory
> find directory_name -type f \( -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.jpeg' -o -name
> '*.gif' \) | while read filename ; do echo "<a
> href=\"$filename\">$filename</a>"; done
>
> The "-o" means OR, so you can add more file extensions in the find command.
>
> You can put this output into your HTML if you just want to generate a bunch
> of links. Or you can use the find command this way to bulk post pictures to
> some online gallery (e.g. a Drupal or Wordpress site) using curl or wget
> instead of echo.
>
> Harold
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Darth Borehd <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I have a lot of club media files (pictures, videos, and sound) on a drive
>> running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.  I want to share these media files on the
>> Internet.  I figure the best way is to make a webpage with links that
>> correspond to the files, so clicking on a link downloads the file or plays
>> it in browser.
>>
>> The problem is there are thousands of these little files.  I tried
>> manually creating links by copying and pasting, but it's taking me to long.
>>
>>
>> I tried webmagick, but I found it only works on picture files.  Otherwise,
>> it looks to be exactly what I want.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
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