Wrote my first shell script to automate the Lucene search that handles searching for this blog. Got the goods here on shell scripting and stuff here on Cron. End result: a shell script that updates the Lucene index for this blog and pipes the output of the index script to an email:

#!/bin/bash
# Script that indexes the appropriate directories
# using Lucence & Java
cd /usr/hosts/cephas.net/wwwroot/blog/
java -cp /usr/hosts/cephas.net/wwwroot/WEB-INF/lib/lucene-demos-1.2.jar:
/usr/hosts/cephas.net/wwwroot/WEB-INF/lib/lucene-1.2.jar org.apache.lucene.demo.IndexHTML
-create -index /usr/hosts/cephas.net/wwwroot/blog/index/ .. | mail -s “LUCENE[cephas.net/blog]” aaron.s.johnson@gmail.com