building a blog using pandoc and markdown files

pandoc_website_v1.sh

#!/bin/sh

ROOT_FOLDER=`pwd`
POSTS_FOLDER="posts"
DIST_FOLDER="dist"

function create_destination() {
    mkdir -p dist dist/assets dist/posts dist/pages
}

function sync_assets() {
    rsync -avz --progress assets dist/
    mv dist/assets/index.html dist/index.html
}

function clean_dist() {
    rm -rf dist
}

function create_posts() {
    echo "GENERATING POSTS \n"
    cd posts
    for i in `ls *.md`
    do
        echo "Translating $i to html5"
        pandoc -s -f markdown -t html --template ../assets/templates/posts.html -H ../assets/css/pandoc.css -o "../dist/posts/$(basename $i .md).html" $i
    done
    cd ..
}

function create_pages() {
    echo "GENERATING PAGES \n"
    cd pages
    for i in `ls *.md`
    do
        echo "Translating $i to html5"
        pandoc -s -f markdown -t html --template ../assets/templates/pages.html -H ../assets/css/pandoc.css -o "../dist/pages/$(basename $i .md).html" $i
    done
    cd ..
}

# Old file name cleanup code. This is replaced by the basename command which creates a new file with updated filename

# for i in `ls *.md.html`
# do
#     echo "fixing file name $i to html extension"
#     mv "$i" "${i//md.html/html}"
# done

clean_dist
create_destination
sync_assets
create_posts
create_pages