49 lines
1.4 KiB
Bash
Executable File
49 lines
1.4 KiB
Bash
Executable File
#!/usr/bin/bash
|
|
|
|
function get_blog_pages () {
|
|
## Getting the variable to set the list to externally
|
|
local VAR_NAME="${1:?"get_blog_pages : No variable was provided to lod the pages into"}"
|
|
local -n VAR="$VAR_NAME"
|
|
|
|
## Setting the list to the available blog files.
|
|
if ls -1 $BLOG_DIR/*.wiki >/dev/null 2>&1; then
|
|
VAR=( $(ls -1 $BLOG_DIR/*.wiki | grep -v 'index.wiki' ) )
|
|
fi
|
|
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
function get_last_5_pages (){
|
|
## Index to use in the iterrations later
|
|
local INDEX
|
|
|
|
## Local variable to store pages (locally)
|
|
local -a pages
|
|
|
|
## Variable name to dump list items into
|
|
local VAR_NAME="${1:?"get_last_5_pages : A variable name was not passed into the function"}"
|
|
## Reference variable to handle setting value of external variable
|
|
local -n VAR="$VAR_NAME"
|
|
|
|
## Page Count Variable
|
|
local PAGES
|
|
## Grabbing pages from above function
|
|
get_blog_pages pages
|
|
|
|
## Getting page count
|
|
PAGES=${#pages[@]};
|
|
|
|
# if the count is less than the minimum, then just set the list as the one grabbed above
|
|
if [[ $PAGES -lt 5 ]]; then
|
|
VAR=( ${pages[@]} )
|
|
else
|
|
## Otherwise, itterate through the last 5 blog posts
|
|
INDEX=-5
|
|
while [[ $INDEX -ne 0 ]]; do
|
|
VAR+=( "${pages[$INDEX]}" )
|
|
## Increment the index so that we get closer and closer to end of the list
|
|
((INDEX++))
|
|
done
|
|
fi
|
|
}
|
|
|