catalog files on hdd in order to find later on backups

Wed Dec 15 18:53:51 UTC 2004

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 08:03:07PM +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 12:49 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > ls -lagsR $CATDIRS > ${CATALOGSDIR}/`date +%m.%d.`
> works for single home user :) but not for a company with > 10 users,
> many non-tech. They need an easy front-end to search.

"> 10 users"
Oh, please...

If your users can't type in "egrep  ${CATALOGSDIR}/FILE_I_WANT *"
then install this script in the cgi-bin dir of your local web server

AKA -Instant Web-based Application.  

######################### CUT HERE #####################
#!/bin/bash
# set the following variables
CATALOGSDIR=""
ERSTITLE="Backup catalog Search Form"
HEAD1='<H1>'
echo 'Content-type: text/html

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">  
<META name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win95; I) [Netscape]"> <TITLE>Back Up Search Tool</TITLE> '

echo '</HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#F4F3F0"><hr>'
target=""
it=""
read it

	target=`echo $it | sed 's/^.*=//'`

echo $HEAD1 $ERSTITLE 
echo '      <br>
	<FORM NAME="SUBTEST" METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/v" 
	ENCTYPE="x-www-form-urlencoded">
	<br>Please enter the file name to look for<br>
	<INPUT NAME=FORM TYPE=TEXT MAXLENGTH=200 size=50>
	</form> press enter to complete the form
	<br> Results of last search:<br>
	<font face=Courier size=1> <text> <br> <pre>'

slocate ${CATALOGSDIR} $target

echo ' </pre> </text>'

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