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Best Evar
- The goal of this project is to in a very round about way post on the the great interwebs a random number every day at 4:58.
Procedure
- The first step is going to the writing of a C program that will generate a random number.
- Step number 2 will involve writing a shell script to run the C program, print out all of the necessary html tags and include the randomly generated number
- Step 3 involves the writing of another shell script to run the shell script and save
- The last step is to set up a cron job that will run the second shell script at 4:58 every day
Necessary Knowledge
- Shell scripting
- HTML
- commands
- C programming
Stuff I Used
- This is the C program
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
srand(time(NULL));
printf("%d ", (rand() % 1200));
return(0);
}
- This is the first shell script
/home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumberGen > /home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumber
echo "<html>"
echo " <head>"
echo " <title>Welcome to Random</title>"
echo " <style type = "text/css">"
echo " <!--"
echo " h1 {font-size: 16pt;}"
echo " h2 {font-size: 16pt;}"
echo " p {font-size: 16pt;"
echo " position: relative;"
echo " left: 1in;}"
echo " h3 {font-size: 16pt;}"
echo " body {background-color: #C0C0C0;"
echo " font-family: Verdana, Arial;}"
echo " -->"
echo " </style>"
echo " </head>"
echo " <body>"
echo " <p>This is the random number of the day: `cat RndNumber`</p>"
echo "</body>"
echo "</html>"
- This is the second shell script
/home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumberScript > /home/vcordes1/public_html/RndNumberPage.html
Attributes
- Scripting
- Commands
- Files and Directories
- The Unix Shell
- The Unix Development Environment
- Text processing
- Job Control & Multitasking
Final Thinkings
- A fun project only a little bit of a pain to get cron to find everything properly
user/vcordes1/portfolio/bpe.txt · Last modified: 2011/12/15 17:32 by vcordes1
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