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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Over-Elaborate Shell Scripting
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In comp.os.linux.misc John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13 Mar 2026 07:59:02 +1000
> not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>> I've done the same thing using PHP, running the script from the
>> command-line to generate the static site. I've done it in Bash
>> earlier too, but I ran into things that are just much easier in
>> PHP since it's built for generating HTML. 
> 
> Oh, that's a clever notion! Hadn't thought of doing it that way.

Check out the ob_* functions for redirecting stdout to a file, then
you can write code similar to that for dynamic pages.

Admittedly I did spend hours debugging an issue which turned to be
where I'd got my file descriptor variables mixed up, which probably
would have been more noticable with the syntax in Bash.

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