Bashblog

A Bash script that handles blog posting

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bashblog

A single Bash script to create blogs.

I created it because I wanted a very, very simple way to post entries to a blog by using a public folder on my server, without any special requirements and dependencies. Works on GNU/Linux, OSX and BSD.

How simple? Just type ./bb.sh post and start writing your blogpost.

You can see it live here: read the initial blog post. That page was 100% generated using bashblog, no additional tweaking.

demo

Usage

Download the code and copy bb.sh into a public folder (for example, $HOME/public_html/blog) and run

./bb.sh

This will show the available commands. If the file is not executable, type chmod +x bb.sh and retry.

Before creating your first post, you may want to configure the blog settings (title, author, etc). Read the Configuration section below for more information

To create your first post, just run:

./bb.sh post

It will try to use Markdown, if installed. To force HTML:

./bb.sh post -html

The script will handle the rest.

When you're done, access the public URL for that folder (e.g. http://server.com/~username/blog) and you should see the index file and a new page for that post!

Features

Configuration

Configuration is not required for a test drive, but if you plan on running your blog with bashblog, you will want to change the default titles, author names, etc, to match your own.

There are two ways to configure the blog strings:

The software will load the values in the script first, then overwrite them with the values in the .config file. This means that you don't need to define all variables in the config file, only those which you need to override from the defaults.

The format of the .config file is just one variablename="value" per line, just like in the global_variables() function. Please remember: quote the values, do not declare a variable with the dollar sign, do not use spaces around the equal sign.

bashblog uses the $EDITOR environment value to open the text editor.

Detailed features

Read the Changelog section for more updates or check out the news on my blog

Contributing

Bashblog started at 500 SLOC and it now has hit the 1000 SLOC barrier. If we want to keep the code minimal and understandable, we need to make the difficult effort to restrain ourselves from adding too many features.

All bugfixes are welcome, but brand new features need to be strongly justified to get into the main tree. Every new request will be honestly and civilly discussed on the comments. As a guideline, pull requests should:

Changelog

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.