Create to HTML from an output of bash script

Question

I want to create a script to convert the output of my script to an HTML format.

Below is the sample output of my script:

[root@test tmp]# cat StoreOnceStatus.txt spawn ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no [email protected] Password: Last login: Fri Jan 27 14:44:50 2017 from 10.x.x.x Welcome to the HP StoreOnce Backup System Command Line Interface. Type 'help' at the prompt for context-sensitive help. > serviceset show status Service Set 1 Status ------------- ------- Overall : Running StoreOnce Subsystem : Running Virtual Tape : Running NAS : Running StoreOnce Catalyst : Running Replication : Running Housekeeping : Running > > hardware show status Name Dev-id Status -------------------- ------------------------------------ ------ HP 300000000-00000-0000-0000-0000 OK p0000 Storage System 0000-0000-1000-b0000-50000 OK > > exit Connection to 10.x.x.x closed. 

From that file, I only need to capture and convert to HTML the output of the commands serviceset show status and hardware show status.

Answer 1

You can create template.html file which will be in form that you want. And instead of real values, you fill it with some expressions (for example: SERVICESETSTATUS, HARDWARESTATUS,...) which will later be be replaced with real values that are collected with script.

In script you can use sed command that will replace expression in template with output command:

sed "s/expression/$(command)/" template.html 

or in your case:

sed "s/SERVICESETSTATUS/$(serviceset show status)/" template.html 

I was using something like this few years back for creating wiki pages.