A simple shell script to help create posts on jekyll

create_posts.sh

# Add it to your .bashrc.
# Usage: create_post "My post name"
#    or: create_post
# The script will generate the slug, ask for author's, ask
# if you want to generate permalink and tags

function create_post {

  title=$1
  # if no post title was supplied
  if [ ! "$title" ]; then
    echo "Enter the post title: " 
    read title
  fi
  #create the slug
  slug=$(echo "$title" | \
        iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT | \
        sed -r s/\\W\|\\s/-/g | \
        sed -r s/^-+\|-+$//g | \
        tr A-Z a-z)

   dir='_posts/'
  # if _posts dir don't exists on current dir, test if we are inside the _posts dir
  if [ ! -d "_posts" ]; then
    dir=''
    if [[ $(pwd) != *_posts ]]; then
      echo "You must be inside the blog root or _posts dir"
      exit
    fi
  fi
  file="$dir$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-$slug.md"

  if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
    echo "Post '$file' already exists"
  else
    #create file
    touch "$file"
    echo "---" >> $file
    echo "title: \"$title\"" >> $file
    echo "date: $(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z')" >> $file
    echo "layout: post" >> $file

    #echo "Inform the post author [Enter to leave empty]: "
    #read author
    author="Maiquel Leonel"
    if [ "$author" ]; then
      echo "author: $author" >> $file
    fi

    #while true; do
        #echo "Generate permalink? [y/n]"
        #read yn
        #case $yn in
        #[Yy]* )
        echo "permalink: /$(date +%Y/%m/%d)/$slug/" >> $file #; break;;
        #[Nn]* ) break;;
        #    * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";;
        #esac
    #done

    echo "Inform the post tags (separated by semicolon) [Enter to leave empty]: "
    read taglist
    if [ "$taglist" ]; then
        echo "tags: " >> $file
        echo "$taglist" | tr ';' '\n' | sed -E "s/^(.*)/  - \1/g" >> $file
    fi
    echo "---" >> $file
    echo "Post created: '$file'"
    #cat $file
    unset stags
  fi
}