From ab6479dcb30299271c043dce268cffe229d0f039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip Wittamore <philip@wittamore.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 17:16:17 +0200
Subject: update

---
 blogrss | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

(limited to 'blogrss')

diff --git a/blogrss b/blogrss
index 2c98b59..36c90e3 100755
--- a/blogrss
+++ b/blogrss
@@ -1,24 +1,32 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-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="$(date --iso-8601=ns)"
+# settings
+TYEAR="$(date +%Y)"
+TITLE="Bloggings"
+YLINK="https://wittamore.fr/articles/$TYEAR"
+FDESC="Ramblings from Brittany"
+WSITE="https://wittamore.fr"
+RLINK="$WSITE/rss.xml"
+FEEDN="/home/philip/web/rss.xml"
+ARTDR="/home/philip/web/articles/$TYEAR"
+UPDAT="$(date --iso-8601=ns)"
+
+# convert tring to htmlentities
+htmlentities () {
+	echo $1 | sed 's/&/\&amp;/g; s/</\&lt;/g; s/>/\&gt;/g; s/"/\&quot;/g; s/'"'"'/\&#39;/g'
+}
 
 # 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'>
 <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' />
+<title>$TITLE</title>
+<link>$WSITE</link>
+<description>$FDESC</description>
+<lastBuildDate>$UPDAT</lastBuildDate>
+<atom:link href='$RLINK' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' />
 " >> ~/feedtop
 }
 
@@ -33,11 +41,13 @@ echo "
 
 builditem () {
   echo "<item>
-  <title>$FULLTITLE</title><pubDate>$POSTDATE</pubDate>
-  <link>$LINKADDR</link>
-  <guid>$LINKADDR</guid>
+  <title>$POSTTIT</title>
+  <pubDate>$POSTDAT</pubDate>
+  <author>Philip A. Wittamore</author>
+  <link>$POSTADD</link>
+  <guid>$POSTADD</guid>
   <category> </category>
-  <description>$DESC</description>
+  <description><![CDATA[$POSTDES]]></description>
 </item>" >> ~/feed
 }
 
@@ -47,27 +57,29 @@ combine () {
         header
         footer
         cat ~/feedtop ~/feed > ~/feedtb
-        cat ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom > $FEEDNAME
+        cat ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom > $FEEDN
         rm ~/feedtop ~/feed ~/feedtb ~/feedbottom
 }
 
 # Run through files and create rss.xml
 
-if [[ -f $FEEDNAME ]]; then
-  rm $FEEDNAME
+if [[ -f $FEEDN ]]; then
+  rm $FEEDN
 fi
-touch $FEEDNAME
-mapfile -t POSTARRAY < <(ls -t "$POSTDIR"/*.html)
+touch $FEEDN
+mapfile -t ARTICLEARRAY < <(ls -t "$ARTDR"/*.html)
 postNum=0
-for POSTS in "${POSTARRAY[@]}"; do
+for POSTS in "${ARTICLEARRAY[@]}"; do
   ((postNum+=1))
   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;}' "$POST" | 
-  sed -e 's/<[^>]\+>/ /g' -e 's|<h4>||g' -e 's|</h4>||g' -e 's|"||g' -e 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//')"
+  POSTTIT="$(grep -o '<h2>.*</h2>' $POST | sed 's/\(<h2>\|<\/h2>\)//g')"
+  POSTDAT="$(grep -o '<h3>.*</h3>' $POST | sed 's/\(<h3>\|<\/h3>\)//g')"
+  # extract from first <h4> to last </p>
+  POSTDES="$(awk '/<h4>/,/<\/p>/' $POST)"    
+  POSTNAM="$(htmlentities "${POST##*/}")"
+  POSTTIT="$(htmlentities "$POSTTIT")"
+  POSTDES="$(htmlentities "$POSTDES")"
+  POSTADD="$YLINK/$POSTNAM"
   builditem "$POST"
 done
   combine
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