A Bash function for easily creating new Octopress posts (version 0.0.2). Full repo here: https://github.com/sts10/octo_new

octo_new_v002

# Full github repo here: https://github.com/sts10/ink


function octo_new {
  cwd=$(pwd) #save pwd as cwd

  cd /Users/$USER/Documents/code/sts10.github.io 
  
  rake new_post["$1"]
  echo "Creating new octopress post called \""$1"\""

  cd source/_posts
  FILENAME=`ls -t | head -1`
  
  open $FILENAME
 
  clear 
  echo "Welcome to octo_new!"
  echo ""
  echo "I just opened a new file called "$FILENAME" for you! Go write an awesome post!"

  echo ''
  echo "Once you've saved the file of your new post, here are your options:"
  echo ''
  echo "p - publish your octopress blog and commit and push your source branch to GitHub"
  echo "d - delete the post you just wrote, and remove it from the source branch of your local Git repo"
  echo "q - quit without doing either of the above"
  echo ''

  read -p "" -n 1 -r  # get user input
  echo    # (optional) move to a new line
  if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Pp]$ ]]    # if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
  then
      # commit git and publish blog
      
      cd ../../
      
      
      git add .
      git commit -m  "Used octo_new to publish a new post called "$FILENAME"." 

      git push origin source
      rake generate
      rake deploy 

      cd $cwd
  elif [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Dd]$ ]]
  then 
      echo ''
      echo "Are you sure you want to delete "$FILENAME"? (y/n) "
      read REPLY2 
      if [[ $REPLY2 =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
      then
        rm $FILENAME
        git add --all .
        git commit -m "Deleted post "$FILENAME" using octo_new."
        git push origin source
        echo ''
        echo "Deleted "$FILENAME", removed it from Git, and committed and pushed Git"  
        cd $cwd
      else
        echo "OK, we'll just leave it there and cd you into your blog's directory."
        cd ../../
      fi
  else
    echo "OK, we'll just leave it there and cd you into your blog's directory."
    cd ../../  # return to main octopress directory
  fi

}

You so fancy.