Nanoblogger

Jul 20, 2023

Small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line

NanoBlogger is a small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content.

Features include

  • intuitive commandline interface
  • highly configurable and script-able
  • easy drafting, editing, and management of entries
  • archiving by category, year, month, day, and entry
  • pagination
  • permanent and navigational links
  • templates and CSS style sheets for full control over layout
  • placeholders for easy template manipulation
  • support for multiple weblogs
  • support for multiple categories
  • support for relative and absolute links
  • support for date manipulation of entries
  • Atom syndication comes with 1.0 format
  • RSS syndication comes with RSS 1.0 and 2.0 formats
  • plugins for calendar, recent entries, weblog status, etc.
  • plugins for text formatting e.g. line breaks translate to HTML
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