Scripts to create a new post & publish it using jekyll. `new_post` takes a title, and optional content; `publish` stages it for publishing on the current date.

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Scripts to create a new post & publish it using jekyll. new_post takes a title, and optional content; publish stages it for publishing on the current date.

new_post "Article Title" "Optional content" will create a file named unpublished-article_title.md whose content is

---
layout: post
title: Article Title
published: false
tags: article
---

Optional content

publish unpublished-article_title.md

will rename the file to the current date, and remove the unpublished flag

so if today is June 9th 2013 the file is renamed 2013-06-09-article_title.md

new_post.sh

#!/bin/bash

# create a new jekyll post
# by supplying a title
# and optional content

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    read -p "Post Title:"  TITLE
else
    TITLE="$1"
fi
FILE=$( echo $TITLE | tr A-Z a-z | tr -d '[:punct:]' | tr ' ' _  )
FILENAME='unpublished-'"$FILE"'.md'
echo -e '---\nlayout: post\ntitle: '$TITLE'\npublished: false\ntags: article\n---\n' > $FILENAME

if [ -n "$2" ]
then
    echo "$2" >> $FILENAME
fi

publish.sh

#!/bin/bash

# publish jekyll post made with new_post.sh

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    read -p "Post filename:"  FILENAME
else
    FILENAME="$1"
fi
if [ -f "$FILENAME" ] 
then
    NEWFILE=$(echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d)$(echo $FILENAME | cut -c12-1000))
    sed -e 4d $FILENAME > $NEWFILE
    rm -f $FILENAME
else
    echo "not a filename"
fi