more robust parsing of 'ls' using 'read'

* Iterating through 'ls' output using 'for' is very brittle; it relies on word splitting and globbing can also mess it up. It's best to use globs directly, but if using 'ls' cannot be avoided, e.g. if you need to sort by date, at least we can use 'IFS= read -r $i' to read from a here-document filled with the 'ls' output, which leaves everything in file names intact except newlines.
* Other minor cleanups.

bb.sh

@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ all_posts() {
     {
         echo "<h3>$template_archive_title</h3>"
         prev_month=""
-        for i in $(ls -t ./*.html); do
+        while IFS='' read -r i; do
             is_boilerplate_file "$i" && continue
             echo -n "." 1>&3
             # Month headers
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ all_posts() {
             # Date
             date=$(LC_ALL=$date_locale date -r "$i" +"$date_format")
             echo " $date</li>"
-        done
+        done < <(ls -t ./*.html)
         echo "" 1>&3
         echo "</ul>"
         echo "<div id=\"all_posts\"><a href=\"./\">$template_archive_index_page</a></div>"
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ rebuild_index() {
     # Create the content file
     {
         n=0
-        for i in $(ls -t ./*.html); do # sort by date, newest first
+        while IFS='' read -r i; do
             is_boilerplate_file "$i" && continue;
             if ((n >= number_of_index_articles)); then break; fi
             if [[ -n $cut_do ]]; then
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ rebuild_index() {
             fi
             echo -n "." 1>&3
             n=$(( n + 1 ))
-        done
+        done < <(ls -t ./*.html) # sort by date, newest first
 
         feed=$blog_feed
         if [[ -n $global_feedburner ]]; then feed=$global_feedburner; fi
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ rebuild_tags() {
         all_tags=yes
     else
         # will process only given files and tags
-        files=$(echo "$1" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u | tr '\n' ' ')
+        files=$(printf '%s\n' $1 | sort -u)
         files=$(ls -t $files)
         tags=$2
     fi
@@ -788,10 +788,11 @@ rebuild_tags() {
     fi
     # First we will process all files and create temporal tag files
     # with just the content of the posts
-    for i in $files; do
+    tmpfile=tmp.$RANDOM
+    while [[ -f $tmpfile ]]; do tmpfile=tmp.$RANDOM; done
+    while IFS='' read -r i; do
         is_boilerplate_file "$i" && continue;
         echo -n "."
-        tmpfile=$(mktemp tmp.XXX)
         if [[ -n $cut_do ]]; then
             get_html_file_content 'entry' 'entry' 'cut' <"$i" | awk "/$cut_line/ { print \"<p class=\\\"readmore\\\"><a href=\\\"$i\\\">$template_read_more</a></p>\" ; next } 1"
         else
@@ -802,14 +803,14 @@ rebuild_tags() {
                 cat "$tmpfile" >> "$prefix_tags$tag".tmp.html
             fi
         done
-        rm "$tmpfile"
+    done <<< "$files"
-    done
+    rm "$tmpfile"
     # Now generate the tag files with headers, footers, etc
-    for i in $(ls -t ./$prefix_tags*.tmp.html 2>/dev/null || echo ''); do
+    while IFS='' read -r i; do
         tagname=$(echo "$i" | cut -c "$((${#prefix_tags}+3))-" | sed 's/\.tmp\.html//g')
         create_html_page "$i" "$prefix_tags$tagname.html" yes "$global_title &mdash; $template_tag_title \"$tagname\""
         rm "$i"
-    done
+    done < <(ls -t ./"$prefix_tags"*.tmp.html 2>/dev/null)
     echo
 }
 
@@ -827,12 +828,12 @@ list_posts() {
 
     lines=""
     n=1
-    for i in $(ls -t ./*.html); do
+    while IFS='' read -r i; do
         is_boilerplate_file "$i" && continue
         line="$n # $(get_post_title "$i") # $(LC_ALL=$date_locale date -r "$i" +"$date_format")"
         lines+=$line\\n
         n=$(( n + 1 ))
-    done 
+    done < <(ls -t ./*.html)
 
     echo -e "$lines" | column -t -s "#"
 }
@@ -855,7 +856,7 @@ make_rss() {
         echo "<atom:link href=\"$global_url/$blog_feed\" rel=\"self\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" />"
     
         n=0
-        for i in $(ls -t ./*.html); do
+        while IFS='' read -r i; do
             is_boilerplate_file "$i" && continue
             ((n >= number_of_feed_articles)) && break # max 10 items
             echo -n "." 1>&3
@@ -869,7 +870,7 @@ make_rss() {
             echo "<pubDate>$(LC_ALL=C date -r "$i" +"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z")</pubDate></item>"
     
             n=$(( n + 1 ))
-        done
+        done < <(ls -t ./*.html)
     
         echo '</channel></rss>'
     } 3>&1 >"$rssfile"
@@ -1086,18 +1087,17 @@ do_main() {
     fi
 
     # Test for existing html files
-    ls ./*.html &> /dev/null
+    if ls ./*.html &> /dev/null; then
-    (($? != 0)) && [[ $1 == rebuild ]] &&
+        # We're going to back up just in case
-        echo "Can't find any html files, nothing to rebuild" && exit
-
-    # We're going to back up just in case
-    ls ./*.html &> /dev/null
-    (($? == 0)) &&
         tar cfz ".backup.tar.gz" *.html &&
-        chmod 600 ".backup.tar.gz"
+            chmod 600 ".backup.tar.gz"
+    elif [[ $1 == rebuild ]]; then
+        echo "Can't find any html files, nothing to rebuild"
+        exit
+    fi
 
     # Keep first backup of this day containing yesterday's version of the blog
-    [[ ! -f .yesterday.tar.gz || $(LC_ALL=$date_locale date -r .yesterday.tar.gz +'%d') != "$(LC_ALL=$date_locale date +'%d')" ]] &&
+    [[ ! -f .yesterday.tar.gz || $(date -r .yesterday.tar.gz +'%d') != "$(date +'%d')" ]] &&
         cp .backup.tar.gz .yesterday.tar.gz &> /dev/null
 
     [[ $1 == reset ]] &&