bashblog

A Bash script that handles blog posting

You can read the initial blog post for more information and as a demo, as my site has been 100% generated using bashblog.

Usage

Download bb.sh into a public folder of yours and run it:

./bb.sh

This will show the available commands

Before creating a blog post, edit bb.sh and modify the variables in the global_variables() function

To create your first post, just do:

./bb.sh post

When you're done, access the public URL for that folder and you should see the index file and a new page for that post!

Simple creation and edition of the posts with your favorite text editor
Post preview
Save posts as drafts and resume later
Transformation of every post to its own html page, using the title as the URL
Generation of an index.html file with the latest 10 posts
Generation of an RSS file! Blog's magic is the RSS file, isn't it...?
Generation of a page with all posts, to solve the index.html pagination problem
Rebuilding the index files without the need to create a new entry
Google Analytics support
Feedburner support
Auto-generated CSS support
Headers, footers, and in general everything that a well-structured html file has
xhtml validation, CSS validation, RSS validation by the w3c
Backup of the site every time you post
Everything contained in a single 700-line bash script!
A simple but nice and readable design, with nothing but the blog posts

Comments. Would need a CAPTCHA or another antispam mechanism. Comments are handled through twitter, with a Twitter button

Read the CHANGELOG section of the script header for more updates