I've been looking for a command line / Linux-friendly "index" generator. I want to load PDF, PS, DOC and other documents and generate a static (X)HTML frame-based interface, as a knowledge base of sorts. Essentially I will rely on the individual having a PDF plugin installed on the browser.
A tool like this would come very handy for us.
There are so many solutions out there for document management; are you sure you want to reinvent the wheel? Personally, I'd recommend Knowledge Tree (there's a free community version).
If you've got your heart set on web page full of file links, you probably want to do it web-side, so it's dynamic and you don't have to remember to re-run it when you put new files in.
Something like the PHP Directory Listing script here might be best: http://www.evoluted.net/thinktank/web-development/php-directory-listing-script
