manually creating Custom Commands

Webmin
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Ubuntu 14.04 … local development.

My Custom Commands are located in file pairs in
/etc/webmin/custom.

e.g.
1438509195.cmd
1438509195.html

If I wish to create a batch of these file pairs manually - instead of through webmin main GUI - what is the indexing system used to create the 10 digit file names?

Is there a file naming method in webmin I can call?

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I’ve looked through custom-lib.pl to find reference to index ‘id’ (10 digit number) which prefixes command files in /etc/webmin/custom

# Save a custom command &open_lock_tempfile(FILE, ">$module_config_directory/$c->{'id'}.cmd");

Save HTML description file

&lock_file("$module_config_directory/$c->{‘id’}.html");

but it’s still not clear how/where the file id’s are created.

Later edit:

I tried cloning an existing (working) file set and changed the file id’s manually using a random 10 digit number - 9123456789.cmd and 9123456789.html. I then restarted webmin.

This approach works and I see custom commands added in webmin.

But it would be interesting to understand the indexing method.

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The file id appears to be a timestamp, in seconds since January 1, 1970. Try a web search for

unix date in seconds

and you will find recipes (and websites) for generating your own.