extract front-matter from a markdown file into vars

issue.txt

--- 
ISSUE_DATE=2015-01-14
ISSUE_LABEL="enhancement"
ISSUE_TITLE="branch selection from issue"
ISSUE_STATE="open"
ISSUE_NUMBER=2  
---
A one line *summary* of what we hope to resolve.    
    
- [x] todo task 1
- [ ] todo task 2 
- [ ] todo ...

enhancement #2 branch selection from issue

mdFrontMatter.sh

#!/bin/bash

file='issue.txt'

source <(cat << EOF
$( sed -n '1,/---/p'  ${file} | sed '1d;$d' )
EOF
)

echo " *ISSUE_DATE*: [ ${ISSUE_DATE} ]"
echo " *ISSUE_TITLE*: [ ${ISSUE_TITLE} ]"
echo " *ISSUE_LABEL*: [ ${ISSUE_LABEL} ]"
echo " *ISSUE_NUMBER*: [ ${ISSUE_NUMBER} ]"
echo " *ISSUE_STATE*: [ ${ISSUE_STATE} ]"

view issue.md in the raw