Site Update
Site Update is another script at Scriptol.com to help the webmaster, as
it accomplishes tedious tasks to leave to webmasters a more intellectual job.
It may be useful also for all programmers.
It compensates the lack of include statement in HTML and in a general manner,
it allows to propagate code from a file to all files in a project or a web
site.
Site Update can:
- replace a part of text, taken from a page of your website, to all other
pages.
- put a header at top of your source files.
The program works offline, on the local image of your site.
Using the program
This is a command line script. It is invoqued with just one command:
siteupd toppage [code]
The code option is use if you want to replace several part in the pages.
This is the # sign followed by a letter or a digit.
Toppage is the page which holds the code to replace in all other pages.
Both the top page and all other pages must contain starting and ending markers
for the code to replace:
<!--XSTARTX--> <!--XENDX-->
The second X of XSTARTX may be replaced by another letter or a digit when more than one part has to be updated.
The program copies a text file, or a part of text file, into all other
files in the target directory, at the specified position. The position
is denoted by starting and ending markers. This allows to put a header
or a menu on all pages of a site, and to update them, at just a command.
The program may be used also to put the copyright, the licence or any
other text, into all sources of a project by an option at command line.
View the manual.
The source code is included into the archive. It is written in Scriptol, and therefore it is simple and clear. It is provided under the Mozilla licence.
First release date: January 2005.
Changes:
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3.0 - 2014 May
Updated for compatibility with recent interpreters and compilers. -
2.2 - 2006 February 25
A blank line was added to each line rewritten. Fixed. (The remblank script allows to remove blank line from a file). -
2.1 - 2006 January 31
Added the -i option. -
2.0 - First release as standalone program.
Was previously part of the webtools package, in a simpler form.