bashblog, a single Bash script to create blogs
bashblog, a single Bash script to create blogs launched on May 19, 2014 with 19 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Bashblog is a single Bash script that creates blogs from a public server folder without requiring special dependencies or setup. Users write posts by running a simple command, and the script automatically generates HTML pages. It works on GNU/Linux, OSX, and BSD systems. The tool is designed for people who want a minimal, straightforward blogging solution that can be installed by copying one file into a web-accessible directory.
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From the sources
I created it because I wanted a very, very simple way to post entries to a blog by using a public folder on my server, without any special requirements and dependencies. Works on GNU/Linux, OSX and BSD. How simple? Just type ./bb.sh post and start writing your blogpost. You can see it live here: read the initial blog post . That page was 100% generated using bashblog, no additional tweaking. Download the code and copy bb.sh into a public folder (for example, $HOME/public_html/blog ) and run ./bb.sh This will show the available commands. If the file is not executable, type chmod +x bb.sh and retry. Before creating your first post, you may want to configure the blog settings (title, author,…from cfenollosa.github.io
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