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title: Blog script
slug: blog-script
date: 2017-06-01T20:26:53-06:00
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I created a script for bash that automates creating a new post, rebuilding and deploying
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    ~/.dotfile/blog.bash symlink in ~/bin
    #!/bin/bash
    #script to make blogging easier

    #activate nikola
    source ~/nikola/bin/activate

    #create a new post
    cd ~/myblog
    nikola new_post -e

    #build the new site
    #nikola build

    #deploy
    #rsync -av --delete output/ ewpt3ch.com:/srv/http/ewpt3ch.com/blog/

    #deactivate nikola
    deactivate

simple and effective, pop open a terminal and away we go. in the future i may move the deployment into a different script so i can edit/revise before putting it up.