99 lines
4.5 KiB
Markdown
99 lines
4.5 KiB
Markdown
bashblog
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A single Bash script to create blogs.
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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. Works on GNU/Linux, OSX and BSD.
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You can see it live here: [read the initial blog post](https://web.archive.org/web/20130520204024/http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~carlesfe/blog/creating-a-simple-blog-system-with-a-500-line-bash-script.html). That page was 100% generated using bashblog, no additional tweaking.
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[](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cfenollosa/bashblog/gh-pages/images/demo.png)
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Usage
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-----
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Download the code and copy bb.sh into a public folder (for example, `$HOME/public_html/blog`) and run
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./bb.sh
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This will show the available commands. If the file is not executable, type `chmod +x bb.sh` and retry.
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**Before creating your first post, you may want to configure the blog settings (title, author, etc).
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Read the Configuration section below for more information**
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To create your first post, just run:
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./bb.sh post
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Or, if you prefer Markdown over HTML:
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./bb.sh post -m
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The script will handle the rest.
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When you're done, access the public URL for that folder (e.g. `http://server.com/~username/blog`)
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and you should see the index file and a new page for that post!
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Features
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--------
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- No installation required. Download `bb.sh` and start blogging.
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- Ultra simple usage: Just type a post with your favorite editor and the script does the rest. No templating.
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- All content is static. You only need shell access to a machine with a public web folder.
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*Tip: advanced users could mount a remote public folder via `ftpfs` and run this script locally*
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- Allows drafts, includes a simple but clean stylesheet, generates the RSS file automatically.
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- Support for tags/categories
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- Support for Markdown, Disqus comments, Twitter, Feedburner, Google Analytics.
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- GNU/Linux, BSD and OSX compatible out of the box (no need for GNU `coreutils` on a Mac)
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- Everything stored in a single 700-line bash script, how cool is that?! ;)
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Configuration
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Configuration is not required for a test drive, but if you plan on running your blog with bashblog, you will
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want to change the default titles, author names, etc, to match your own.
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There are two ways to configure the blog strings:
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- Edit `bb.sh` and modify the variables in the `global_variables()` function
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- Create a `.config` file with your configuration values (useful if you don't want to touch the script)
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The software will load the values in the script first, then overwrite them with the values in the `.config` file.
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This means that you don't need to define all variables in the config file, only those which you need to override
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from the defaults.
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The format of the `.config` file is just one `variablename="value"` per line, just like in the `global_variables()`
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function. **Please remember:** quote the values, do not declare a variable with the dollar sign, do not use
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spaces around the equal sign.
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bashblog uses the `$EDITOR` environment value to open the text editor.
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Detailed features
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-----------------
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- A simple but nice and readable design, with nothing but the blog posts
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- **NEW on 2.0** Markdown support via a third-party library (e.g.
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[Markdown.pl](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)). Use
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it via `./bb.sh post -m`. The third party library must support an invokation
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like `markdown_bin in.html > out.md` as the code calls it that way.
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- Post preview
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- Save posts as drafts and resume editing later
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- HTML page for each post, using its title as the URL
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- Configurable number of posts on the front page
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- Automatic generation of an RSS file, feedburner support
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- Additional page containing an index of all posts
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- Automatically generates pages for each tag
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- Rebuild all files while keeping the original data
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- Comments delegated to Twitter, with additional Disqus support
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- Google Analytics code support
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- Contains its own CSS so that everything is reasonably styled by default
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- Headers, footers, and in general everything that a well-structured html file needs
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- Support to add extra content on top of every page (e.g. banners, images, etc)
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- xhtml validation, CSS validation, RSS validation by the w3c
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- Automatic backup of the site every time you post (stored as `.backup.tar.gz`)
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Read the CHANGELOG section of the script header for more updates or [check out the news on my blog](http://cfenollosa.com/blog/tag_bashblog.html)
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