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3.6 KiB
phrollo: a phlogroll in a shellscript
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`phrollo` is a simple tool to manage a phlog roll. It uses a simple
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configuration file and outputs the relevant selectors to be added to a
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gophermap. The list of selectors of updated phlogs is sorted in
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decreasing order of update time (meaning that more recent updates appear
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at the top of the list). `phrollo` also outputs an updaterd config file,
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to be used for future calls.
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`phrollo` detects updates by using `shasum -a 256`, i.e. by computing
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a hash of the resource and comparing it with the hash obtained when the
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resource was last seen.
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Usage
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===========
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1)
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```
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./phrollo status.txt
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```
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In this case, `phrollo` will put a new config file in `status.txt.new`,
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and output the sorted list of gopher selectors. The config file received
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on input will also be saved in `status.txt.bak`.
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2)
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```
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cat config.txt | ./phrollo
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```
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In this case, the new config file will be put in `phrollo.out`, and
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output the sorted list of gopher selectors.
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IMPORTANT: The next time `phrollo` is run, it must be given the last
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config file generated.
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Configuration file
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The format of the `phrollo` config file is as follows:
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DATE \t DESCRIPTION \t URI \t HOST \t PORT \t SHASUM
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where:
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- DATE: is the last time the phlog was updated, or an empty string for
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a new phlog;
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- DESCRIPTION: is the description of the phlog (e.g., the name of the
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author)
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- URI: is the path of the phlog
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- HOST: well, the host
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- PORT: normally 70
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- SHASUM: the shasum of the phlog at the time of the latest change, or
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an empty string for a new phlog
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Example
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=============
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Let us construct an initial `phrollo` config file containing all the
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phlogs we would like to follow. Since `phrollo` has never seen any of
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those phlogs, both DATE and SHASUM will be ignored. We will indicated
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them with a "-" dash. Notice that fields are separated by actual TABs:
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```
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- Slugmax /~slugmax/cgi-bin/slerm zaibatsu.circumlunar.space 70 -
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- RPDO /Phlog 1436.ninja 70 -
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- Alex Shroeder / alexschroeder.ch 70 -
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- Solderpunk /~solderpunk/phlog zaibatsu.circumlunar.space 70 -
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- Tomasino /phlog gopher.black 70 -
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- KatolaZ /~katolaz/phlog republic.circumlunar.space 70 -
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```
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Now we can feed this file to `phrollo` to get:
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```
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1(20190126) Alex Shroeder / alexschroeder.ch 70
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1(20190126) KatolaZ /~katolaz/phlog republic.circumlunar.space 70
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1(20190126) RPDO /Phlog 1436.ninja 70
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1(20190126) Slugmax /~slugmax/cgi-bin/slerm zaibatsu.circumlunar.space 70
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1(20190126) Solderpunk /~solderpunk/phlog zaibatsu.circumlunar.space 70
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1(20190126) Tomasino /phlog gopher.black 70
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```
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which is a list of selectors corresponding to the phlogs specified in
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the config file. Moreover, `phrollo` will also create the updated
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config file `phrollo.out`:
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```
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20190126 Tomasino /phlog gopher.black 70 bd141abfc29522e3e2b5d00f1a656212201ae5def60de90a7ce847cddeb6d0db
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20190126 Solderpunk /~solderpunk/phlog zaibatsu.circumlunar.space 70 4df8feff5237db12a4fb1c43d95f254dc26b0e35e3b008d53cc5004ad2c6acb9
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20190126 Slugmax /~slugmax/cgi-bin/slerm zaibatsu.circumlunar.space 70 bfd0e14e2c5b08fff6b968804dd253e488c5e0bfd9d80cec4ca7599928fac53f
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20190126 RPDO /Phlog 1436.ninja 70 d61e34dfc71a10f5b45c6ccf7f6d96e4f976832efdd179e71a0981695b317dc9
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20190126 KatolaZ /~katolaz/phlog republic.circumlunar.space 70 af9b99199b344b027addeb09ba71621123bf799605b6190a65be145221bcefde
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20190126 Alex Shroeder / alexschroeder.ch 70 36d66161d096c5c729a6433c411fad9da978931cdfab40e9bd57787aa0e0b1f6
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```
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Then, we can run `phrollo` again using the latest updated config file
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(i.e., `phrollo.out`) to detect updates.
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