02-11-2013
Hi,
Yep, that works. Why is it not recommended?
You were right, I made a mistake in the original post but it has now been changed.
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chronicle-spooler
CHRONICLE-SPOOLER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation CHRONICLE-SPOOLER(1)
NAME
chronicle-spooler - Automatically post pre-written entries.
SYNOPSIS
Path Options:
--config Specify a configuration file to read.
--spool-dir Specify where pending entries are located.
--live-dir Specify where the entries should be moved to.
Post-Spool Commands:
--post-move Specify a command to execute once entries have been moved.
Optional Features:
--test Only report on what would be executed.
Help Options:
--help Show the help information for this script.
--manual Read the manual for this script.
ABOUT
chronicle-spooler is a companion scrip to the chronicle blog compiler.
It is designed to facilitate posting new entries automatically upon
particular dates. (ie. If you have ten written blog entries in a spool
directory it will move them into place upon the date you've specified.)
DATE SPECIFICATION
To specify the date a particular entry should be made live you
must add another pseudo-header to your blog entry files, as follows:
Title: This is the title of the blog post
Date: 2nd March 2007
Publish: 15th April 2008
Tags: one, two, three, long tag
The text of your entry goes here.
In this example we know that this entry will be made live upon the
15th April 2008, and not before.
AUTHOR
Steve
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http://www.steve.org.uk/
LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2008-2010 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the
full text of the license.
perl v5.12.3 2011-05-03 CHRONICLE-SPOOLER(1)