if [ "$#" != "1" ] then echo "Usage $0 full_path_to_the_source_file" exit fi fileName=$(basename $1) dirName=$(dirname $1) cd $dirName glog=$(git log --pretty=format:'%H %cD %an %s' -n 25 ${fileName}|awk ' ORS=" "{print \ "\n{\n" \ "\"commit\": \"" $1 "\",\n" \ "\"date\": \""$2 " "$3" "$4" "$5 " "$6 "\",\n" \ "\"author\": \"" $8 ", "$9 "\",\n" \ "\"comment\": \""} { s = ""; for (i = 10; i <= NF; i++) s = s $i " "; print s } { print "\"\n},"}') echo "[" update_glog=$(echo $glog|sed -e 's/,$//g') echo $update_glog echo "]"