[ILUG] bind + lex + yacc...

[Matthew French]

Paul Jakma owned up:
> right... the person kevin is poking fun at is me.
>
> secondly: i mailed him about lex + yacc being very cute tools.
>
> thirdly: to illustrate i gave lex + yacc examples (slightly extended
> versions of examples from a HOWTO on the net) to parse, eg:

Just an example, the way I typically generate files is to use a bash script,
something like:
------------------------------------------
# Output functions
do_header()
{
   cat <<EOF
// Start of config
// Generated: $now
// By: $myname
EOF
}

do_item()
{
    echo "  Files in $1: $2"
}

do_footer
{
  echo "// The end"
}

# Do the work
generate()
{
  do_header
  for dir in $*
  do
    do_item "$dir" `ls $dir | wc -l`
  done
  do_footer
}

# Start of script
myname=$0
now=`date`

generate > output.file
------------------------------------------

Obviously one could use perl, python, TCL, Java, C, or whatever. Even PHP
and JSP's if one is ready for creative use of wget. The web option is
actually a better option of the web server is reachable by all domains and
the code changes often enough to make it easier to maintain centrally, and
SSH can be used to distribute the "files" securely.

But bash/ksh/sh is normally the lowest common denominator and so long as one
is careful to avoid cross platform differences, this will implement the
required functionality without having other external dependencies.

HTH,

- Matthew

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