Jekyll tasks/post to help create a new post.

gistfile1.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: provide a title argument."
  exit -1
else
  title="$@"
fi

d=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")

slug=$(echo $title | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr '[:space:]' '-')
slug="${slug:0:${#slug}-1}"
post="./_posts/$d-$slug.md"

body=""
read -d '' body <<EOF
---
layout: post
title: $title
categories: 
  - 
---

EOF

echo "$body" > $post
subl . $post

You could also use thor, if you have other tasks as well: https://github.com/tpitale/tpitale.github.com/blob/master/tasks/post.thor