Adds a bash function to create a new blog post in Hugo

This function is documented but I used ChatGPT to assist with the awk
and sed subsitutions. The sed suggestions took a while to get right and
eventually it resorted to using awk. Works though.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bashrc b/bashrc
index 2716a10..2fbc5e3 100644
--- a/bashrc
+++ b/bashrc
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ alias h='hey_openai'
 alias hd='openai_data'
 alias xclip='xclip -selection c'
 alias notes="cd ~/Documents/Notes/"
+alias blog="cd ~/code/html/yulqen.org/"
 alias bud="cd ~/Documents/Budget/ledger/hledger/"
 alias getip="curl ifconfig.me"
 alias tprojects="task rc.list.all.projects=1 projects"
@@ -74,6 +75,28 @@ complete -o default -o nospace -F _todo t
 
 # Functions
 
+##############################################################
+# Quick way to create a new blog post with Hugo from wherever
+# on the filesystem.
+# Used ChatGPT to get the substitution and escaping correct.
+# Called with a single string argument.
+# ############################################################
+
+function newpost() {
+  if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]; then echo "Give me the title!"; return; fi
+  title="$1"
+  # convert title to lowercase and replace spaces with hyphens for the slug
+  slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr ' ' '-')
+  # create the new post file with Hugo
+  cd $HOME/code/html/yulqen.org
+  post_path="content/blog/$slug.md"
+  hugo new "$post_path"
+  # update the front matter with the original title string
+  echo "Looking for $post_path..."
+  awk -v title="$title" '{gsub(/title: .*/, "title: \""title"\"")}1' "$post_path" > tmp && mv tmp "$post_path"
+  vim $post_path
+}
+
 ###################################################################
 # To output in cat, just call todj.
 # To enable editing the files in vim, call todj vim.