Bash Script to automatically create new hashnode `.md` article files with frontmatter

You can use the shell script new to auto generate boilterplate article .md files, when you publish on hashnode from a GitHub source.

Installation

chmod +x ./new

Configuration is doen by changing variable values inside new.

Specify your hashnode domain (custom domain or hashnode subdomain)

domain="xn--david-9u04d.to"

Specify a default cover image URL

cover="https://david.wolf.gdn/media/cover.png"

Simply run the script, this will gnerate a new .md file with frontmatter in the directory the script is located.

./new

The file name will follow the format of YYYY-MM-DD_.md. For example: 2021-12-31_.md.

Note	Spaces are not allowed in hashnode source files, when you are publishing from a GitHub source on Hashnode, use underscores instead.

You can optionaly pass a date to the script by passing it as argument:

./new 2021-11-28