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title: Blog Composer Script
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layout: post
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date: 2022-09-07 17:47:15
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permalink: /dev/2022/SEP/07-blog-composer-script.php
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excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
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---
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One thing I love about this setup is I just have to write markdown; and I can easily do that from my text editor in console. However it became apparent that I needed more stuff in my front matter than I thought; so I decided to automate things a bit.
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```text
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---
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title: Blog Composer Script
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layout: post
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date: 2022-09-07 17:47:15
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permalink: /dev/2022/SEP/07-blog-composer-script.php
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excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
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---
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```
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This is quite literally the front matter for this post. No, it's not a whole lot of information; but it would be really nice to just have all of that dumped in to a file right in to a ready-to-write state. Run a command and get to typing. This why we run Linux and self-host, right? To automate all the self-hosted things!
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Well, that's why I do it. Either way, here's the bash script that I hastly hacked together:
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```bash
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#!/bin/bash
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# pickmy.org post composer
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# by: Jay/nq4t/@music_onhold
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# usage: ./compose.sh [category] [title]
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# example: /compose.sh blog MY AWESOME POST TITLE NO YOU DON'T NEED TO ENCLOSE IT!
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# run in the root of your site files/repository
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# assumes categories are directories in root
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# Variables and category argument
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category=$1
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pd=$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
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pt=$(date +'%T')
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file=blog$$.md
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# Ditch the category argument
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shift 1
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# Read everything else as title.
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title=$@
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t=${title,,}
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t=${t// /-}
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fd=$(date +'%Y/%^b/%d')
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# Let's write the front matter to our temp file.
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printf -- "---\ntitle: $title\nlayout: post\ndate: $pd $pt\npermalink: /$category/$fd-$t.php\nexcerpt_separator: <!--more-->\n---\n\n" >> $file
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# Write the post in whatever editor you want.
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nano + $file
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# Move the file to category/_posts replacing spaces with hyphen
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mv $file $category/_posts/$pd-${t// /-}.md
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# Display some output to verify it's done.
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printf "\nPost $title created in $category: $category/_posts/$pd-$t.md\n\n"
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```
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Weeeeee, it's more comments than actual code; and it literally is just printing lines to files and playing fill in the blanks. Plus I don't think I have to write much more, it's already documented.
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The only issue I had was when I had a naughty character in a title; so I may need to improve this by adding some stuff to escape those. You can use any editor you want. I'm just used to nano; and being even lazier; I wanted nano to drop the cursor at the *end* of the file. It's made dealing with the front matter sooooooo much easier. Template it once and fill in the blanks.
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