Jekyll tasks/post to help create a new post.

readme.md

Works on Windows using Git shell;

1. Save the shell script in the "\tasks" folder on your blog.
2. Use command to execute: sh .\tasks\post.sh "A Brilliant Post"

The last line will open the new post in Brackets.

post.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: provide a title argument."
  exit -1
else
  title="$@"
fi

d=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")

slug=$(echo $title | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr '[:space:]' '-')
slug="${slug:0:${#slug}-1}"
post="./_posts/$d-$slug.md"

body=""
read -d '' body <<EOF
---
layout: post
title: $title
categories: 
  - 
---

EOF

echo "$body" > $post
brackets $post