zm -- Modified lb

This is the source of the tool used to generate (most of) the ZERM website. This repo is a fork of Luke Smith's lb, which is just a better choice than my take on it. (look at chrissxYT/BlogTool if you want to see my failed take on it)

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Features

zm is an extremely small shell script that lets you write articles and will format them in all the ways you could ever want. Here's what it will produce:

• A Rolling Page.
• A list of all articles with dates: The index.html.
• All the articles appear as standalone entries/pages.
• These standalone files exist in a zerm/ directory.
• Articles are added, in full form, to an RSS feed of your chosing as well, see our RSS feed.
• Posts in the rolling page have divs that can easily be modified via a CSS stylesheet, and in general everything is easily editable.
• One command to delete published articles from the RSS feed, rolling page and standalone entries simultaneously.
• Published articles can be revised, updating the standalone article pages, the RSS feed and everything else. (currently broken due to share buttons)

Usage

zm commands are all one letter. They all stand for something though.

zm n(ew)	# Make a new draft.
zm e(dit)	# Edit a draft of an entry.
zm t(rash)	# Delete a draft of an entry.
zm p(ublish)    # Finalize/publish a draft.
zm d(elete)	# Delete a published article.
zm r(evise)	# Revise an already published entry (you can republish it with `zm p` when done)

Installation

• bash and GNU sed are required. → inb4 bloat
• Be sure that you own or have writing privileges in the given directory, so the script can create the required directory structure.
• Open the script and change the first few variables to match the names of the files you use in your website.
• Clone the repository and run sudo make install
• Add markers for where the new articles are added. Don't skip this step. See below.

Markers

For the system to work, add the following comment line to a (1) Rolling Page File (as above), a (2) Article List File and (3) RSS feed.

<!-- ZERM -->

You can format these files/pages how ever you want, just be sure to edit the zerm file and change the variables at the top to match the file names of those you chose.

When you finalize an article, it will be added directly below that line in the proper format (either HTML or the proper RSS/XML format), give you the rolling page and RSS feed for free.

Info

• The articles are stored in zerm/ in your website's root directory. Drafts are in zerm/.drafts.
• zerm/.htaccess acts as a "database" file. zerm stores filenames with their corresponding proper names and publishing dates there.
• The other files in this repo just illustrate how you can use zerm. Only the zerm script itself is necessary.
• Your $EDITOR variable should be set to your preferred text editor, vim will be assumed if you don't have one set.