Help with my "CMS" in bash

[trem]

This probably isn't the best way to do this, but it sort of works.

echo "#CMS.sh"
echo -n "Title of post: "
read title
echo -n "Text: "
read text
echo "<i>" >>date
date >>date
echo "</i>" >>date
echo "<p>" >>new.html
cat date >>new.html
echo "</p>" >>new.html
echo "...................." >>new.html
echo "<h1>"$title"</h1>" >>new.html
echo $text >>new.html
cat index.html >>old.html
cat old.html >>index.html
cat new.html >>index.html
rm -f new.html old.html date

what I want to do is add new text to an html file so that it appears at the top of the page.

The following is what I get when I run it:

    Tue Apr 15 22:34:48 CDT 2008
    ....................
    old title
    old text

    Tue Apr 15 22:34:53 CDT 2008
    ....................
    new title
    new text

    Tue Apr 15 22:34:48 CDT 2008
    ....................
    old title
    old text

I'm trying to get it to look like

<new post>
<old post>

Thanks in advanced for any help.

[wildpossum]

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[i92guboj]

I'm trying to get it to look like

<new post>
<old post>

Thanks in advanced for any help.

So, what you need is to *reverse* the order in which the posts are stored, if I got it correctly.

You can't do that directly, but there's an easy way. Let's say that you store all the posts in a file called posts.txt. You can dump the new info into tmp.txt with echo, then cat posts.txt >> tmp.txt, and finally rename that file what will be the new posts.txt.