A simple Deno script to remove all markdown draft files based on its frontmatter

md-draft-filter.ts

import { extract } from "https://deno.land/std@0.162.0/encoding/front_matter/any.ts";
import { join } from "https://deno.land/std@0.162.0/path/mod.ts";

const targetDir = "content";
const fileList: string[] = [];

function findFile(directory: string) {
  for (const dirEntry of Deno.readDirSync(directory)) {
    const fullPath = join(directory, dirEntry.name);

    if (dirEntry.isFile === true) {
      const fileExt: string = dirEntry.name.substring(
        dirEntry.name.lastIndexOf(".") + 1,
      );
      if (fileExt === "md") {
        fileList.push(fullPath);
      }
    }

    if (dirEntry.isDirectory === true) {
      findFile(fullPath);
    }
  }
}

findFile(targetDir);

for (const item of fileList) {
  const fileContent = await Deno.readTextFile(item);
  const data = extract(fileContent);

  if (data.attrs.draft === true) {
    console.log("Remove draft: " + item);
    await Deno.remove(item);
  }
}