Automates creating a new post with Octopress, just do "post Title of post" and the script will do the rest!

post.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# post.sh
# 
# Originally created by:
# Hilton Lipschitz (http://www.hiltmon.com) @hiltmon
# Use and modify freely, attribution appreciated
#
# Create a new Octopress post, isolate it, generate the site and leave me with a
# preview thread running.
#
# Recreated in bash by:
# Mario Lopez
#
# Usage
# $ post This is a post
#
# NOTE: Do not wrap the parameters in quotes
#


#
# Variables
#

# Location to your Octopress installation root
StrFileName="" # Holds the file name of the post
StrOctopressRoot="$HOME/Documents/Projects/techsym.com/octopress"
StrPostTitle="" # Holds the Title of the post
StrTemp="" # Temp variable that holds the current argument


#
# Script Execution
#

# Change to the directory that houses your Octopress instance
cd $StrOctopressRoot

# Sets the file name based upon the input args
StrPostTitle="$@"

# Creates the post and saves the resultant output into StrFileName for parsing
StrFileName=$(rake new_post["$StrPostTitle"])

# Parse out the generated file name
StrFileName=${StrFileName#*s/} # Strips away any characters before file name
StrFileName=${StrFileName%.*} # Strips away the file extension

# Isolate, generate and preview
if [ ! -z "$StrFileName" ]; then

	rake isolate["$StrFileName"]
	rake generate
	rake preview

fi