This script creates a new blog post for Jekyll.

jekyll-new-post.sh

#!/bin/sh

# TODO add parameter for output path
# TODO add usage string
# TODO verify variables

# variables
title="New Post"
linkpost=
permalink=
postdate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
posttime=`date +%H:%M:%S`
publishdate="$postdate $posttime"
tags=
categories=
openfile=false

# parameter handling
while getopts "n:t:c:l:d:p:o" arg
do
	#echo "ARG is $arg"
	case "$arg" in
		n) title="$OPTARG";;
		l) link_post="$OPTARG";;
		d) publishdate="$OPTARG"
		postdate=`date -jf "%F %T" "$publishdate" +%Y-%m-%d`
		posttime=`date -jf "%F %T" "$publishdate" +%H:%M:%S`;;
		p) permalink="$OPTARG";;
		o) openfile=true;;
		t) tags="$OPTARG";;
		c) categories="$OPTARG";;
		-) break;;
		\?) ;;
		*) echo "unhandled option $arg";;
		?) echo $usage_string
		exit 1;;
	esac
done

# create the file name
lowercase=`echo $title | awk '{print tolower($0)}'`
stripped=`echo ${lowercase// /-}`
filename=$postdate-$stripped.md
file=../_drafts/$filename

# create the file and add content
echo "---\n" >> $file
echo "title: \"$title\"" >> $file

if [ -z "$linkpost" ]; then
	echo "layout: post" >> $file
else
	echo "layout: post-link" >> $file
	echo "post_link: $linkpost" >> $file
fi

echo "published: false" >> $file

if [ -z "$categories" ]; then
	echo "categories: Thoughts" >> $file
else
	echo "categroies: $categories" >> $file
fi

echo "tags: $tags" >> $file
echo "date: $publishdate" >> $file
echo "\n---\n" >> $file >> $file
echo "Content goes here." >> $file

# open file if wanted
if $openfile; then
	open $file
fi

# done
exit 0