# Create Hugo Posts With Bash

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/create-hugo-posts-with-bash/8161>\
**Category:** tips & tricks\
**Created:** [August 27, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/create-hugo-posts-with-bash/8161 "2017-08-27T21:31:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexandros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/alexandros)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/create-hugo-posts-with-bash/8161/1 "2017-08-27T21:31:42Z")

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Ok. This one is by far the most powerful trick in my Hugo arsenal and I feel like sharing it because it is a HUGE time saver.

We all know about Hugo’s archetypes. But they’re only for front matter.

How about creating content pages for several products that have essentially the same text and a different photo or barcode.

I’m using the `readDir` function to render photos in my content pages. A while back I posted a tutorial on how to do this over here: [Per-post thumbnail through filename convention? - #4 by alexandros](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/per-post-thumbnail-through-filename-convention/7693/4)

Now here is what I do. I move the photos I need in a folder. Each photo has the desired permalink in its filename.

And then in this folder I created a `hugopost.sh` and with the following contents:

> ```
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> 
> ## iterate through each file whose name ends in 'jpg'
> ## saving it as $file. ~ is your $HOME directory
> for file in ~/*jpg
> do
> ## basename will remove the path (~/Desktop/My_pictures) and also
> ## remove the extension you give as a second argument    
> name="$(basename "$file" .jpg)"
> 
> ## create the directory, the -p means it will create 
> ## the parent directories if needed and it won't complain
> ## if the directory exists.
> mkdir -p ~/"$name"
> touch "$name".md
> 
> echo '+++
> brand = "Some brand"
> title = "Some title"
> barcode = "Some number"
> description = "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Si Amet"
> dimensions = "Whatever"
> image = "/images/'$name'-thumb.jpg"
> tags = ["some-tag"]
> +++' > "$name".md
> 
> ## copy jpg to /images/
> mv "$file" "~/$name"
> ## move directory to hugo static
> mv "~/$name" "path to directory"
> ## move md to hugo content
> mv "~/"$name".md" "path to directory"
> done
> 
> ```

Of course you need to fill the directory paths and change the content of your front matter parameters to whatever you need. Then make `hugopost.sh` executable with `chmod +x` or using your desktop’s file properties GUI.

And simply run `./hugopost.sh` in the directory with the photos and the script.

Enjoy!

PS Obviously this is is for Linux. And I got it to work from bits and pieces on the Ask Ubuntu Forum. I’m sure you can get it to work on MacOs since it’s also UNIX. But I don’t know anything about Windows and don’t ask me how to make this work on Microsoft’s Os.

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**Author:** ![gaetawoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/gaetawoo/32/16789_2.png) [@gaetawoo](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/gaetawoo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/create-hugo-posts-with-bash/8161/2 "2017-08-27T23:34:43Z")

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well, if you are running Windows 10, you can install Bash natively and do this. Or, you can install Bash for Git and do this also.