shuppy (@delan) — [archived]

“let’s make a static site generator in shell scripts”, she said

shell script that uses ripgrep and sed to stitch together html files with the page title in the header and mtime in the footer, but first we have to check if we have gnu or bsd versions of stat(1) + date(1). for gnu we need “date -ud \@$(stat -c \%Y -- "$1") +\%FT\%RZ”, while for bsd we need “date -jr $(stat -f \%m -- "$1") +\%FT\%RZ”.

“it will be fun and lightweight”, she said