bashblog ======== A Bash script that handles blog posting. Some would say it's a CMS, but I don't like that word. It's just a script that lets you write a blog post with your favorite editor, puts all the posts together into an index, and creates an RSS file and a list of posts. I created it because I wanted a very, very simple way to post entries to a blog by using a public folder on my server, without any special requirements and dependencies. You can read [the initial blog post](http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~carlesfe/blog/creating-a-simple-blog-system-with-a-500-line-bash-script.html) 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 or create a `.config` file with your configutation values** To create your first post, make sure `$EDITOR` is set, and then 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! Features -------- - 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 - Optional comments, using the Disqus platform - 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 Read the CHANGELOG section of the script header for more updates