The Unbearable Lightness of Bit: July 2008

HTML page with pictures

Quick and simple: a short bash script to create a HTML page with all the pictures you have in the current directory.

echo -e "<html><head><title>Icons</title></head><body>\n" > file.html
ls -1 *.png | while read a; do echo -e "<img src='./$a'/>\n" >> file.html; done
echo -e "</body></html>\n" >> file.html

Just add different wildcards for every image format you want to include.

Online vs. offline hashes

Someone asked me why the hash of any string produced by Hash'em'all! is different from the hash of the same string produced in bash by

echo "string" | md5sum

The reason is simple: the "echo" command automatically adds a newline at the end of the input string. The "-n" option tells the command not to add it. So