# Output the most recent blog entries
# Blog entries must be named in the format YYYYMMDD##.html
# Where YYYY is between 2000 and 2999
# and ## is an ordinal of some kind
# NOTE: Script breaks after Dec 31, 2999

# How many entries do you want?
howmany=10

# What's the value of today's date?
today=`date +%Y%m%d`

# What's our file set?
catalog=(`ls -r 2*.html`)

# Create the file list
for entry in ${catalog[@]} ; do 
	# if it's from today or earlier, add it to the list
	if [ ${entry:0:8} -le ${today} ] ; then 
		recent=(${recent[@]} ${entry}) ; 
	fi
	# if the list is full, stop adding
	if [ ${#recent[@]} -eq $howmany ] ; then break ; fi
done

# Output recent entries
for file in ${recent[@]} ; do
	cat $file ;			# add the file
	echo '<br clear="all">' ;	# insert a break & clear
	echo				# insert a blank line
	echo '<center><img src="graphics/separator.png"></center>' ;	# insert a break & clear
	echo				# insert a blank line
done