Pile o' Text

A pint-sized data shoveler for the modern txt-wrangler.

Synopsis

pot add|add-page|build

Examples:

pot add my_cool_article.txt

pot add-page about.txt

pot build

Description

...in other words, it's a minimal viable product, blog-centric static-site generator written as a self-contained Bash script, designed to be dropped into a folder containing text-files waiting to be published.

Everything needed to build a site -- templates, styles, images, configs, etc -- are contained within the script.

Options

• add Add a given text file to the articles index (.articles.csv). The publication date is when the article was added.
• add-page Add a given text file to the pages index (.pages.csv). A page is an article without the publication date.
• build Build articles, pages and index, and put them in the specified output folder.

Installation

cd <your text directory of choice>
cp <path to where you cloned the repo>/pot .

Caveats

Pile o' Text is extremely simple, and thus will come with a slew of drawbacks:

• Two or more of the same markup on the same line, like _em1_ _em2_ or *strong1* ... *strong2* will be incorrectly displayed. (sed only support greedy matches.)
• You can't start a markup on one line and finish on another line.
• Supports only a very limited version of markdown.

Author

Johan Persson jzp@bahnhof.se