Example bash script (creates multiple shaarli instances and generates an HTML index of them)
#!/bin/bash
set -o errexit
set -o nounset
#config
shaarli_base_dir='/var/www/shaarli'
accounts='bob john whatever username'
shaarli_repo_url='https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli'
ref="master"
#clone multiple shaarli instances
if [ ! -d "$shaarli_base_dir" ]; then mkdir "$shaarli_base_dir"; fi[](.html)
for account in $accounts; do
if [ -d "$shaarli_base_dir/$account" ];[](.html)
then echo "[info] account $account already exists, skipping";[](.html)
else echo "[info] creating new account $account ..."; git clone --quiet "$shaarli_repo_url" -b "$ref" "$shaarli_base_dir/$account"; fi[](.html)
done
#generate html index of shaarlis
htmlhead='<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<!-- Minimal html template thanks to http://www.sitepoint.com/a-minimal-html-document/ -->
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>My Shaarli farm</title>
<style>body {font-family: "Open Sans"}</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<h1>My Shaarli farm</h1>
<ul style="list-style-type: none;">'
accountlinks=''
htmlfooter='
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>'
for account in $accounts; do accountlinks="$accountlinks\n<li><a href=\"$account\">$account</a></li>"; done
if [ -d "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html" ]; then echo "[removing old index.html]"; rm "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html" ]; fi[](.html)
echo "[info] generating new index of shaarlis"[](.html)
echo -e "$htmlhead $accountlinks $htmlfooter" > "$shaarli_base_dir/index.html"
echo '[info] done.'[](.html)
echo "[info] list of accounts: $accounts"[](.html)
echo "[info] contents of $shaarli_base_dir:"[](.html)
tree -a -L 1 "$shaarli_base_dir"This script just serves as an example. More precise or complex (applying custom configuration, etc) automation is possible using configuration management software like Ansible