Jekyll Posts and bash
10 Jan 2015Finding a way to automate the process of creation post, i found some interesting resources in the internet like scripts in bash.
Now the process is more simple and easier. Just type in the terminal
And Voilá!
---
layout: post
title: test1
date: enero 11 23:49:58
author: drog
tags:
- tag
- tag2
- tag3
---
The script
JEKYLL_LOCAL_ROOT="$HOME/blog/"
JEKYLL_FORMATTING="markdown"
AUTHOR="drog"
# 'builtin cd' into the local jekyll root
builtin cd "$JEKYLL_LOCAL_ROOT/_posts/"
# Get the date for the new post's filename
FNAME_DATE=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
# Get the title for the new post
read -p "Enter title of the new post: " POST_TITLE
read -p "Enter tags of the new post (separated by spaces): " POST_TAGS
# Convert the spaces in the title to hyphens for use in the filename
FNAME_POST_TITLE=`echo $POST_TITLE | tr ' ' "-"`
# Convert title to lowercase
# --
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264428/converting-string-to-lower-case-in-bash-shell-scripting
# http://www.kclug.org/pipermail/kclug/2003-April/015084.html
FNAME_POST_TITLE="`echo ${FNAME_POST_TITLE} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"
# Now, put it all together for the full filename
FNAME="$FNAME_DATE-$FNAME_POST_TITLE.md"
# And, finally, create the actual post file. But we're not done yet...
touch "$FNAME"
# Write a little stuff to the file for the YAML Front Matter
echo "---" >> $FNAME
echo "layout: post" >> $FNAME
# Echo the original post title to the YAML Front Matter header
echo "title: $POST_TITLE" >> $FNAME
# Now we have to get the date, again. But this time for in the header (YAML Front Matter) of
# the file
YAML_DATE=$(date "+%B %d %X")
# Echo the YAML Formatted date to the post file
echo "date: $YAML_DATE" >> $FNAME
echo "author: $AUTHOR" >> $FNAME
echo >> $FNAME
echo "tags:" >> $FNAME
for tag in $POST_TAGS;
do echo " - $tag" >> $FNAME;
done
# Close the YAML Front Matter Header
echo >> $FNAME
echo "---" >> $FNAME
echo >> $FNAME
# Open the file in your favorite editor
$EDITOR $FNAME &
Testing
Then add a alias to your .bashrc or .zshrc
alias post='~/.scripts/post.sh'
And enjoy!
$ post