Create Jekyll posts with their YAML matter quickly from the command line.

new-post.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Title of post:"
read title

echo "Description of post:"
read description

echo "Tag post:"
read tags

dateStr=$(date +%Y'-'%m'-'%d'-')                          # Current date
blogFolder=~/boondoggles/thoughts/_posts                  # _posts folder of Jekyll blog
YAML=$'---
layout: post
title: '$title'
description: '$description'
tags: ['$tags']
---'                                                      # YAML matter at top of blog post
lowercase=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
formattedTitle=${lowercase// /-}
echo $formattedTitle
newFile=$dateStr$formattedTitle'.md'

echo "$YAML" > $blogFolder/$newFile                       # Create post in correct folder

vim $blogFolder/$newFile

Updates, 12/14/14:

I wrote a blog post about what's happening in this script here. Also looks like this has inspired a new companion gem for Jekyll called Jekyll Compose that's worth keeping an eye on as it matures. Awesome!