* Crossposted in area linux_bbs, linux, unix

This may be useful for UNIX people ("ooh, look mummy, it's the UNIX
people!") running BBSes.  This morning I wrote a script to extract
file_id.diz from zip files and add them to a files.bbs:

#!/bin/sh

for i in *; do
  echo -n $i >> files.bbs
  echo -n " " >> files.bbs
  unzip -Cap $i file_id.diz | tr "\n" " " >> files.bbs
  echo >> files.bbs
done

I also wrote a script to convert files.bbs to .htaccess format, for use with Apache.

#!/bin/sh
awk '{ filename = $1; $1 = ""; sub(" ", "");
printf "AddDescription \"%s\" %s\n", $0, filename }'
<
files.bbs | tee .htaccess

Which means that any files located in autoindexed directories (directories
without a default index.html or equivalent) on my web server will now have
their own descriptions.  Unfortunately long descriptions don't word-wrap,
but I can't think of a good solution for that yet.

You'll probably need to edit the default httpd.conf for this to work
(changing the OptionsOverride and DescriptionWidth options, from memory).

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