Web Design

zodiac – static website generator

zodiac is a static website generator.

It’s powered by sh and awk.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Uses existing tools (i.e. awk, sh, find, etc.) found on a default installation.
  • Supports using plain html.
  • Built-in support for markdown.
  • Simple, easy to use templating system.
  • Supports custom helpers written in awk.
  • Configuration, meta, helpers, etc. can be added as you need them.
  • Convert your markup using any external command that accepts a UNIX-style pipe (smu, asciidoc, discount, rst2html, etc).

Website: github.com/nuex/zodiac
Support:
Developer: Chase Allen James
License: MIT License

zodiac is written in Awk. Learn Awk with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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