Re: [Tool Discussion][Not a Programmer] Idea i'm not sure if has been done for gemtext editing

[Matthew Graybosch]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, at 2:47 PM, Andrew Singleton wrote:
> Idea I have for a tool that might be useful might not:
> 
> Concept is you feed it your top level directory.
> 
> It lists all your subdirectories in that and lets you hit a button and
> it goes through EVERY file and if it's an index.gmi it puts at the
> foot of the file links to any directory's index.gmi above it with the
> directory name (listing top level domain as Home.)

I bet somebody could implement this as a shell script. Traversing the directory tree could be handled with the following commands, where $CAPSULE is the top-level directory.

to get index.gmi files: find ${CAPSULE} -type f -name 'index.gmi'
to get other gemtext files while excluding index.gmi: find ${CAPSULE} -type f -name '*.gmi' ! -name 'index.gmi'

If you want to make this a GUI app, that would be more complicated. Dunno if a beginner could manage it; but I haven't been one in over 20 years so maybe?

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