motd2rss

motd2rss.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# $ motd2rss < /etc/motd > motd.xml
#
# adapted a great deal from NetBSD's pkg-changes2rss

print_header()
{
    cat <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd">
 <rss version="0.91">
 <channel>
   <title>chicken-ac:/etc/motd</title>
   <link>mailto:help@schmonz.com</link>
   <description>Changes to chicken-ac</description>
   <language>en-us</language>
   <copyright>Schmonz Enterprises</copyright>
EOF
}

print_footer()
{
    cat <<EOF
 </channel>
 </rss>
EOF
}

escape_entities()
{
	echo "$1" | sed -e 's|&|\&amp;|g' -e 's|<|\&lt;|g' -e 's|>|\&gt;|g'
}

print_item()
{
	local title
	title=`escape_entities "$1"`
	cat <<EOF
	<item>
		<title>${title}</title>
	</item>
EOF
}

main()
{
	print_header
	read line; read line; while read line && [ "${line}" ]; do
		print_item "$line"
	done
	print_footer
}

main "$@"
exit $?