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+%%%-------------------------------------------------------------------
+%%% File    : escobar_run.erl
+%%% Author  : Badlop <badlop@process-one.net>
+%%% Purpose : Frontend to run Escobar
+%%% Created : 16 Apr 2008 by Badlop <badlop@process-one.net>
+%%%-------------------------------------------------------------------
+-module(escobar_run).
+
+%%% Download ejabberd_hilite.erl from http://code.google.com/p/erl-escobar/
+
+%%% Example calls:
+%%% escobar_run:file("escobar_run.erl", "../ejascobar/").
+%%% escobar_run:dir(".", "../ejascobar/").
+%%% escobar_run:dir(".", "../doc/api/").
+%%% find ./ -type f -name '*.html' -exec sed -i 's/class="function" >\([a-z0-9]*\)</class="function" id="\1">\1</;' {} \;
+
+-export([file/2, file/1, dir/1]).
+
+file([F, OutDir]) ->
+    file(F, OutDir).
+
+file(F, OutDir) ->
+    String = escobar_hilite:file(F),
+    FB = filename:basename(F),
+    FilenameHTML = filename:join(OutDir, FB ++ ".html"),
+    escobar_hilite:out(FilenameHTML, String).
+
+dir([SrcDir, OutDir]) ->
+    SrcDirAbs = filename:absname(SrcDir),
+    OutDirAbs = filename:absname(OutDir),
+    Files = get_files([SrcDirAbs]),
+    lists:foreach(
+      fun(F) ->
+	      case filename:extension(F) of
+		  ".erl" ->
+		      file(F, OutDirAbs);
+		  ".hrl" ->
+		      file(F, OutDirAbs);
+		  _ ->
+		      ok
+	      end
+      end,
+      Files).
+
+get_files([]) ->
+    [];
+get_files([FHead | FTail]) ->
+    case catch file:list_dir(FHead) of
+	{ok, Files} ->
+	    FilesHead = [filename:join(FHead, FilesN) || FilesN <- Files],
+	    get_files(FilesHead ++ FTail);
+	{error, enotdir} ->
+	    [FHead] ++ get_files(FTail)
+    end.