Here is a bash script to quickly convert your Content Files to Page Bundles (introduced today with Hugo 0.32)
The following script will convert every markdown into a folder that contains an index.md like so:
for FILE in *.md
do
# remove the last dot and subsequent chars to name the folder from the .md
DIR="${FILE%.*}"
mkdir -p "$DIR"
mv "$FILE" "$DIR"
done
find ./ -iname '*.md' -execdir mv -i '{}' index.md \;
Save the above script into something like dir-from-files.sh make it executable and simply run with
This script is for Linux. If you are on Windows I can’t help. If you’re on MacOs I think that iname is not available and you need a workaround. But I can’t help with that either I’m afraid.
Maybe someone who uses a Mac or Windows could chime in and help.
However, FYI, it does not handle a section folder like content/post/somepost.md. That just gets converted to content/post/index.md. Not quite sure how to fix it.
Yaay. Apparently, I’m trying to convert data files and not content files. I got these errors dir-from-files.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected tokenDIR="${FILE%.*}"' dir-from-files.sh: line 3: DIR="${FILE%.*}"
OK. I just tested the script with .toml and to get it working you need to modify it like this:
for FILE in *.toml
do
# remove the last dot and subsequent chars, then add new ext
DIR="${FILE%.*}"
mkdir -p "$DIR"
mv "$FILE" "$DIR"
done
find ./ -iname '*.toml' -execdir mv -i '{}' index.md \;
@alexandros I can’t thank you enough, the script didn’t do all the magic but resolved a mess of 3,584 changed files with 13,242 additions and 15,833 deletions.
I’m on a mac, and used this variant for individual sets of files:
#!/bin/bash
# Assumes bilingual files like name.lang.md
# Get the first argument which should be just the base filename
for FILE in $1*.md
do
# get basename from .md file to make folder
DIR="${FILE%.*.*}"
# get name with lang
LANGPRE="${FILE%.*}"
# get lang string
LANG="${LANGPRE##*.}"
# make the folder
mkdir -p "$DIR"
# move the files into the folder and rename
mv "$FILE" "$DIR/index.$LANG.md"
done
ls -la "$DIR"
You might notice it will do the mkdir for every loop, which is not needed but, because of the -p switch, the folder gets created on only the first iteration. So it creates it the first loop, then fails to create it on subsequent loops. It’s an assumption but, probably good enough.
I put that in a file bundle.sh in my content/pages folder, and set it to executable with:
> chmod +x bundle.sh
Then assuming there are two files like about.en.md and about.ja.md, I ran it like this:
> ./bundle.sh about
For more info on how this is working, look into “bash parameter substitution”.
If you are editing the script and want to figure out a variant, start out with echo instead of the mkdir and mv commands, so that you can see how the script is working. Like:
