I tried putting this post up last night, but my sleep deprived brain said otherwise. The script I wrote to automatically name the files and add dates didn’t work! I looked over the code after 6 hours of sleep and instantly found the issue. One mislabeled variable.

:woman_facepalming: (Jekyll doesn’t support emojis out of the box and now I’m sad)

Posts in Jekyll powered blogs must follow a strict naming scheme. For example, the name of this post is “20-09-10-Automating-Post-Creation.md”. I don’t want to manually type out the date, title, and category the post belongs to every day. That’s why I wrote a small script to do it for me!

DATE=$(date +"%y-%m-%d") #date
TIME=$(date +"%H:%M") #time
echo Enter a title 
read TITLE
echo Enter category
read CATEGORY
NAME=$(echo $TITLE | tr " " "-") #remove spaces and replace them with dashes
FILE=$DATE-$NAME.md
echo -e "---\n\ #generate front matter
layout: post\n\
title: $TITLE\n\
date: $DATE $TIME\n\
categories: $CATEGORY\n\
---" > _posts/$FILE #save to file

This script takes input from the user and automatically generates a markdown file with the correct naming scheme and front matter. All I have to do now is type up my post and git push! I’m way too happy about a simple bash script.

Peace Out!

JK