Using variables in hugo new post/sectionName/title

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pretty straightforward, I want to use parts of the hugo new post command to populate the frontmatter.

Can this be done?

2

I have to get better at documenting the stuff I create, but I think what you want is here:

Or, maybe I misunderstood – which makes it “not straight forward …”

3

Also (and this I will have to remember to get into the documentation).

If you want to pass random arguments to use in the archetype templates, you can use the getenv template func.

So

MYVAR=foo hugo new post/bar.md

And in archetype template:

{{ getenv "MYVAR" }}

Note that setting of the OS environment variables inline like that may vary between OSes.

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Thank you @bep, that’s exactly what I needed. :slight_smile:

The end result was this little script:

#!/bin/bash

# usage newStory.sh STORY TITLE.md

export STORY=$1

hugo new stories/$STORY/$2
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