Fsdb::F...l_table(3)

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version 3.9 · 3 versions
, in epel 9

✨ NAME ✨

db_to_html_table — convert db to an HTML table

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

db_to_html_table [-g N] <source.fsdb >dest.html

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the whole vibe here is: convert an existing dbtable into an HTML table. The output is literally a fragment of an HTML page — it assumes you're gonna fill in the rest yourself (head, body, etc.), bestie.

Input is fsdb format. No cap.

Output is HTML code (not fsdb), and the HTML-specific characters — less than, greater than, ampersand — get escaped. Back in fsdb-1.x it assumed input was ISO-8859-1; now it assumes both input and output are unicode. Honestly? That change is a feature of the 21st century 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -g N or <--group-count N> — Colors groups of N consecutive rows with one background color.

This module also supports the standard fsdb options:

  • -d — Enable debugging output.
  • -i or --input InputSource — Read from InputSource, typically a file name, or "-" for standard input, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
  • -o or --output OutputDestination — Write to OutputDestination, typically a file name, or "-" for standard output, or (if in Perl) a IO::Handle, Fsdb::IO or Fsdb::BoundedQueue objects.
  • --autorun or --noautorun — By default, programs process automatically, but Fsdb::Filter objects in Perl do not run until you invoke the run() method. The "--(no)autorun" option controls that behavior within Perl.
  • --help — Show help.
  • --man — Show full manual.

🌸 SAMPLE USAGE 🌸

Input:

#fsdb -F S account passwd uid gid fullname homedir shell
johnh  *  2274  134  John & Ampersand  /home/johnh  /bin/bash
greg  *  2275  134  Greg < Lessthan  /home/greg  /bin/bash
root  *  0  0  Root ; Semi  /root  /bin/bash
four  *  1  1  Fourth Row  /home/four  /bin/bash

Command:

cat data.fsdb | db_to_csv -g 3

Output:

<table>
<tr><th>account</th> <th>passwd</th> <th>uid</th> <th>gid</th> <th>fullname</th> <th>homedir</th> <th>shell</th> </tr>
<tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"><td>johnh</td> <td>*</td> <td>2274</td> <td>134</td> <td>John &amp; Ampersand</td> <td>/home/johnh</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
<tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"><td>greg</td> <td>*</td> <td>2275</td> <td>134</td> <td>Greg &lt; Lessthan</td> <td>/home/greg</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
<tr bgcolor="#f0f0f0"><td>root</td> <td>*</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>Root ; Semi</td> <td>/root</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
<tr bgcolor="#d0d0d0"><td>four</td> <td>*</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>Fourth Row</td> <td>/home/four</td> <td>/bin/bash</td> </tr>
</table>

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • Fsdb.
  • dbcolneaten.
  • dbfileadjust.
  • html_table_to_db.

👑 CLASS FUNCTIONS 👑

✨ new ✨

$filter = new Fsdb::Filter::db_to_html_table(@arguments);

Create a new db_to_html_table object, taking command-line arguments.

✨ set_defaults ✨

$filter->set_defaults();

Internal: set up defaults.

✨ parse_options ✨

$filter->parse_options(@ARGV);

Internal: parse command-line arguments.

✨ _format_row ✨

$self->_format_row($row_aref, $tag, $color);

Return as a string the HTML table row corresponding to @$row_aref, with each element delimited by $tag, with color $color.

✨ setup ✨

$filter->setup();

Internal: setup, parse headers.

✨ run ✨

$filter->run();

Internal: run over each rows.

Copyright (C) 2007-2015 by John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>

This program is distributed under terms of the GNU general public license, version 2. See the file COPYING with the distribution for details.

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