lcd_make_paper

#!/bin/bash
# This shell script copies the final LaTeX document locally, processes it into HTML, then reuploads it to the server.
# It won't be useful to anyone else verbatim, but might give you some ideas about how things fit together, and how to write a shell script.

# get_ip: checks if the server is on the local network or remote network.
get_ip() {
LANDOMAIN=intra.bostoncoop.net
WANDOMAIN=extra.bostoncoop.net
NOT_ONLINE_ERR=1

if ( /sbin/ifconfig | grep 192.168 > /dev/null ) then 
	HOST=$LANDOMAIN
elif ( /sbin/ifconfig | grep eth0 > /dev/null ) then
	HOST=$WANDOMAIN
else
	echo Not online!
	exit $NOT_ONLINE_ERR
fi
}

# fetch_files: get tex file from server (along with other versions, rtf and pdf, for good measure)
fetch_files() {
cd ~/sandbox/final/full
scp $HOST:/home/wiki/lcd/pub/final.\* .
}

# process_files: reformat tex file into HTML
#  1. remove DOS-style CR
#  2. Remove inline PDF figures, replace with code that will later become hypertext references
#  3. process through latex2html
#  4. Add in references to stylesheets and background images
#  5. Replace PDF figure with hypertext references
#  6. Copy new files over old
process_files() {
cat final.tex | sed -e "s/
/|/g" -e 's/.*emancipation_chart.*/EMCHART/' -e 's/.*mature_minor.*/MMCHART/' | tr "|" "\n" > tempfinal
mv tempfinal final.tex
latex2html -address "LCD Law Office #2" -index "../index.html" -no_subdir -no_footnode final.tex
mkdir temp
cd temp
for x in ../*.html; do cat $x | sed -e 's/^<BODY/<LINK REL="stylesheet" type="text\/css" href="..\/style.css"><BODY background="..\/bg.jpg"/gi' -e 's/\/usr\/share\/latex2html\/icons\///gi' -e 's/.*EMCHART*/<A HREF="..\/emancipation\/emancipation_chart.html">Click here for the chart comparison of emancipation laws across the 50 states.<\/A>/g' -e 's/.*MMCHART.*/<A HREF="..\/mature_minor\/mature_minor.html">Click here for the chart comparison of mature minor laws across the 50 states.<\/A>/g' | grep -v "^=$\|^\[0\]$" > `basename $x`; done;
mv * ..
cd ..
rm -r temp
cd ~/sandbox
}

# put_files: use rsync to upload files back to server
put_files() {
rsync -Caz final $HOST:/home/wiki/lcd
}

# main script
get_ip
fetch_files
process_files
put_files
exit 0
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