html4tree

Description

This program generates index.html files based on a file directory tree. Think Apache mod_autoindex. See https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_autoindex.html. It is written in Kotlin.

License

html4tree is copyrighted free software by Yamir Encarnación <yencarnacion@webninjapr.com>. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT license(see the file LICENSE).

How to compile

To compile:

$ ./gradlew

How to run

To obtain help:

java -jar ./build/libs/html4tree.jar -h
Usage: html4tree [OPTIONS] TOPDIR

Options:
  --max-level INT  Number of levels deep for which to generate an index.html
                   file
  -h, --help       Show this message and exit

Arguments:
  TOPDIR  Top directory to crawl

To run:

$ java -jar ./build/libs/html4tree.jar <top directory to index>

To only generate the index.html file for the top directory:

$ java -jar ./build/libs/html4tree.jar <top directory to index> --max-level 0

To exclude files from the generated index.html file

To exclude files place a .html4ignore file in the directory you wish to exclude particular files with each line of the file containing a valid regular expression that would match the filename you wish to exclude.

example: to exclude files that end in .txt you could use the following in the .html4ignore file:

.*.txt

Other

To delete all the index.html files generated with one command, do:

$ find <top directory to crawl> -name index.html -delete