From 5c1603cec943a0516fd841a976c270b952e3f5f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 10:47:37 +0200
Subject: update

---
 blogrss | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/blogrss b/blogrss
index 5e83aeb..528e450 100755
--- a/blogrss
+++ b/blogrss
@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-link=https://wittamore.fr/articles/2026
-description='Ramblings from Brittany, France'
-rsslink=https://wittamore.fr/rss.xml
-feedname=/home/philip/web/rss.xml
-postDir=/home/philip/web/articles/2026
-updated=$(date --iso-8601=ns)
+YEAR="$(date +%Y)"
+
+YLINK="https://wittamore.fr/articles/$YEAR"
+DESC="Ramblings from Brittany, France"
+RSSLINK="https://wittamore.fr/rss.xml"
+FEEDNAME="/home/philip/web/rss.xml"
+POSTDIR="/home/philip/web/articles/$YEAR"
+UPDATED="$(date --iso-8601=ns)"
 
 # Build RSS header & footer
 header () {
 echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
-<rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>" > ~/feedtop
-echo "
+<rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
 <channel>
 <title>Bloggings - wittamore.fr</title>
 <link>https://wittamore.com</link>
 <description>Ramblings from Brittany, France</description>
-<lastBuildDate>$updated</lastBuildDate>
-<atom:link href='$rsslink' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' />
+<lastBuildDate>$UPDATED</lastBuildDate>
+<atom:link href='$RSSLINK' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' />
 " >> ~/feedtop
 }
 
 footer () {
 echo "
 </channel>
-
 </rss>
 " >> ~/feedbottom
 }
 
 # Function: Build Item add to feed
 
-item () {
+builditem () {
   echo "<item>
-  <title>$fullTitle</title><pubDate>$postdate</pubDate>
-  <link>$linkadd</link>
-  <guid>$linkadd</guid>
+  <title>$FULLTITLE</title><pubDate>$POSTDATE</pubDate>
+  <link>$LINKADDR</link>
+  <guid>$LINKADDR</guid>
   <category> </category>
-  <description>$description</description>
+  <description>$DESC</description>
 </item>" >> ~/feed
 }
 
@@ -47,27 +47,28 @@ combine () {
         header
         footer
         cat ~/feedtop ~/feed > ~/feedtb
-        cat ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom > $feedname
+        cat ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom > $FEEDNAME
         rm ~/feedtop ~/feed ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom
 }
 
 # Run through files and create rss.xml
 
-if [[ -f $feedname ]]; then
-  rm $feedname
+if [[ -f $FEEDNAME ]]; then
+  rm $FEEDNAME
 fi
-touch $feedname
-mapfile -t postArray < <(ls -t "$postDir"/*.html)
+touch $FEEDNAME
+mapfile -t POSTARRAY < <(ls -t "$POSTDIR"/*.html)
 postNum=0
-for posts in "${postArray[@]}"; do
+for POSTS in "${POSTARRAY[@]}"; do
   ((postNum+=1))
-  post=$posts
-  fullTitle=$(grep -o '>.*</h2>' "$post" | sed 's/\(>\|<\/h2>\)//g')
-  postdate=$(grep -o '>.*</h5>' "$post" | sed 's/\(>\|<\/h5>\)//g')
-  postname=${post##*/}
-  linkadd="$link"/"$postname"
-  description=$(sed -n '/<h4>.*/,/*.<\/h4>/{p;q;}' "$post" | sed -e 's/<[^>]\+>/ /g' -e 's|<h4>||g' -e 's|</h4>||g' -e 's|"||g')
-  item "$post"
+  POST=$POSTS
+  FULLTITLE=$(grep -o '>.*</h2>' "$POST" | sed 's/\(>\|<\/h2>\)//g')
+  POSTDATE=$(grep -o '>.*</h3>' "$POST" | sed 's/\(>\|<\/h3>\)//g')
+  POSTNAME=${POST##*/}
+  LINKADDR="$YLINK/$POSTNAME"
+  DESC="$(sed -n '/<h4>.*/,/*.<\/h4>/{p;q;}' "$POST" | sed -e 's/<[^>]\+>/ /g' -e 's|<h4>||g' -e 's|</h4>||g' -e 's|"||g')"
+  DESC="$(echo $DESC | sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//')"
+  builditem "$POST"
 done
   combine
 exit
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