RE: Sendmail Aliases to HTML?

open(HF,">aliases.html") or die "$!";
open(AF,"</etc/aliases") or die "$!";
print HF "<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Our new alaises</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><PRE>
+";
while (<AF>) {print HF;}
print HF "</PRE></BODY></HTML>";
close(HF) or die "$!";
close(AF) or die "$!";
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Update:merlyn is right as usual. I don't put <,> or & in my /etc/aliases, just plain Postmaster: root stuff... Sorry.

Change the while (<AF>) {print HF;} to

while (<AF>) {
s/&/&amp;/g;
s/</&lt;/g;
s/>/&gt;/g;
print HF;}
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That will make it "semi-encoded" and not break on >,< or &.

merlyns solution with LWP is a better one of cause, but the above might be good enough if you don't have and don't want to install LWP.

/brother t0mas

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RE: RE: Sendmail Aliases to HTML? by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 23, 2000 at 16:56 UTC
That fails if there are any less-thans, greater-thans, or ampersands in the text. And HTML has no equivalent to our <code> tags. {grin} So, you need to entitize the file. If you've got LWP installed, that's trivial. See the snippet I just added: Convert text file to HTML. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]