bashblog – single Bash script to create blogs

bashblog is a simple blog system written in a single bash script.

Download, run, write, done!

bashblog is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Ultra simple usage: Just type a post with your favorite editor and the script does the rest. No templating.
• No installation required. Download bb.sh and start blogging.
• Zero dependencies. It runs just on base utils (date, basename, grep, sed, head, etc).
• Linux, BSD and Mac OS X compatible out of the box, no need for GNU coreutils on a Mac. It does some magic to autodetect which command switches it needs to run depending on your system.
• All content is static. You only need shell access to a machine with a public web folder. Tip: advanced users could mount a remote public folder via ftpfs and run this script locally.
• Allows drafts, includes a simple but clean stylesheet, generates the RSS file automatically.
• Support for tags/categories.
• Support for Markdown, Disqus comments, Twitter, Feedburner, Google Analytics.
• Everything stored in a single ~1k lines bash script.

Website: github.com/cfenollosa/bashblog
Support:
Developer: Carlos Fenollosa
License: GNU General Public License, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version

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