Script to prompt user for input to add to filename.md for Jekyll blog post for podcast show notes on website

epi.sh

#!/bin/bash
# author : @CochinoChingon
# about : bash script to create new jekyll posts with minimal-music-project theme by @itsMeaga1n
# description : This will make a new Jekyll blog post as an md file and open in neovim to complete for the discography section of the above theme.
# URL : https://gist.github.com/gChingon/d9b03b8482b899b088b518cf3d08796c

# POSTS -- not necessary but a good habit to be in Git dir; alternatively can use variables to post to Git dir regardless of location

read -p "did you copy YouTube link? " answer
if [ $answer == y ]
then
	true
else
	echo "copy the YouTube link dumbass!"
	exit
fi

if [[ $(pwd) != *_posts ]]; then
     echo "You must be inside the _posts dir"    # test if we are inside the _posts dir
     exit
fi

# CAL print 2 month calendar with Days in left column to find Day of week across all printed months

ncal -A 2

if [[ $(date -v+2m +%Y) != $(date +%Y) ]]; then # this is to for near end of year months
	read -p "which year?: " year
else
	year=`date +%Y`;
fi

read -p "Post date: " pdate   	# date you want post to go live
read -p "Title: " title    	# episode title
read -p "episode category? " category # blog post category
read -p "one line for exerpt: " oneline # hopefully this will correctly output everything I write as a full string for the exerpt
read -p "image name? (teaser image for blog post) " img
read -p "YouTube link: " link   # YouTube link for video

blogCopy=$(cat $HOME/esc.txt) # blog copy from Descript transcript saved to esc.txt with Keyboard Maestro shortcut
postTitle=`echo $title | tr " " "-"`   # convert spaces in title to hyphens
ytID=`echo $link | cut -d "/" -f4`  # cut command uses -d as delimiter (what it breaks sections into) "/" uses the backslash -f4 still cant figure out, would expect count to start at 0 making it f2, but that's for another day
ptlower=`echo "$postTitle" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`   # convert title to lowercase
postname=$year-$pdate-$ptlower.md 	# file name year-month-day-title.md
touch $postname 	# create blank post

# BODY OF POST

echo "---
title: $title
date: $year-$pdate
excerpt: ${oneline[@]}
header:
  teaser: /images/$img
  overlay_image: /images/show-logo.png
  overlay_filter: 0.5
category: $category
---

{% include video id='$ytID' provider='youtube' %}

$blogCopy

# Show  links

<br> Listen on:
<br> [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3XjoipCU3QzeIaQAAQpBdW)  <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/3XjoipCU3QzeIaQAAQpBdW'><i class='fab fa-spotify'></i></a>
<br> [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sucias-are-my-favorite/id1548173787) <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sucias-are-my-favorite/id1548173787
'><i class='fas fa-podcast'></i></a>
<br> [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80MjI0YzYzYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw)  <a href='https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80MjI0YzYzYy

<br> Active Socials:
<br> [u/SuciasAreMyFavorite](https://reddit.com/u/suciasaremyfavorite/submitted) on Reddit <a href='https://reddit.com/u/suciasaremyfavorite/submitted'><i class='fab fa-square-reddit'></i></a>
<br> [@sucias.are.my.favorite](https://instagram.com/sucias.are.my.favorite) on Instagram  <a href='https://www.instagram.com/sucias.are.my.favorite'><i class='fab fa-instagram-square'></i></a>" >> $postname

/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs $postname