This will be a short post. I wrote a little Bash script to assist with creating new drafts for this site. Nothing special. But, it will save me some typing.
Site has a specific file name format. So, instead of manually typing in the same command I do every time I created a script named draft that formats everything needed to make a new draft for this site. I think it’ll come in handy.
Below is the code for the Bash script I wrote.
#!/bin/bash
#
# File: newDraft.sh
#
# Script for scaffolding a new draft for this blog.
#
# Maintainers:
# - Timothy Loftus (n3s0)
#
# Expected format for the file should look something like this.
#
# YYYY-MM-DD-YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.md
#
# Changelog
#
# 05/25/2022
# - Initial creation
NEW_FILE_NAME=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d-%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
FULL_FILE_NAME="$NEW_FILE_NAME.md"
cat <<EOT >> $FULL_FILE_NAME
---
title: "NEW POST TEMPLATE"
date: "YYYY-MM-DD"
classes: "wide"
excerpt: ""
categories:
- "posts"
tags:
- "posts"
---
## Summary
EOT