Command-Line blog posts
| May 8th, 2008So, it only seems fitting that I should talk about a command-line interface to posting on this blog. No, I do not mean using links or the like, but a way to post from the command line.
So, this post is being typed up in vim on my Fedora 8 laptop. I will use this great little tool I found called wppost to post. wwpost is part of the perl module WordPress::Post.
A brief summary of its commands are bellow:
-c category, can be a list separated by commas, no spaces
-t title
-i description, main body of post, if it has a slash, it is interpreted as a file to slurp
like a text or html file
-D iso formatted date for post, can be left out
-T if there are image attachments, place them as thumbnails only, with link, not just resized
Some usage examples taken from the man page:
Most basic of usage, (provided you have a ~/.wppost file)
wppost -t 'hi everyone' -i 'i just wanted to say hello'
If you want to specify two different categories:
wppost -t 'Another Apple' -i 'Apples are really great. I do love them so.' -c food,rant -D 20071231
If the body of the post is in a file
wppost -t 'title here' -i ./content.txt
If the content of the post is in a file and you want to use the file
name as the title
wppost -i ./Title_Here.txt
If you want to have file attachments:
wppost -t 'recent photos' -i 'these are recent pictures i took' ./*jpg
Pretty cool, huh? 
Peace out!