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		icebraining on March 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A dead simple static site generator – jus... In theory you could also use PHP as a pre-processor; install it locally, copy the sources to the webserver root, then use wget --mirror to extract a post-processed version of the site. You'd still need PHP installed on your home machine, but then again, it's not like you don't have to install some pre-processor anyway.

cowsandmilk on March 19, 2014 [–]

> use wget --mirror to extract a post-processed version of the site.

or just use php file.php > file.html

icebraining on March 19, 2014 | [–]

Sure, but you'd need to process each file, or write a script to do it, when wget --mirror fetches the whole site at once.

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