Simple Wrapper around `hugo new`

I am slightly anal about how my files are structured on disk. To this end I like to date prefix my post files. Hugo does not easily accommodate this and I found that it was causing me to not write blog posts or quick notes when I otherwise would have.

To fix the issue I wrote a small little script: newpost.zsh. I can either call it as a one off, or from a make new to easily kick off new posts.

It does require ZSH as I am using some of the nifty parameter expansion that is unique to ZSH.

Here is an example of a make new run, and the resulting output:

$ make new
ASK=1 script/newpost.zsh
TITLE: Hello World

Listing existing post paths:
content
└── post
    ├── apple
    ├── dev
    ├── ffmpeg
    ├── fieldnotes
    ├── golang
    ├── linux
    ├── mssql
    ├── mysql
    ├── pgsql
    ├── rails
    ├── ruby
    └── tech

13 directories
PATH: dev
hugo new post/dev/2015-0817-hello_world.md
/data/src/hublog/content/post/dev/2015-0817-hello_world.md created

$ cat /data/src/hublog/content/post/dev/2015-0817-hello_world.md
+++
Draft = true
Tags = [""]
date = "2015-08-17T09:24:01-06:00"
title = "2015 0817 hello_world"

+++

DO NOT FORGET TO FIX THE TITLE ABOVE

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As you can see from the output (specificly title in the post frontmatter) it isn’t a silver bullet; however it is MUCH easier to remove a date string and type a post title than it is with the inverse.