WIP to add creation date + update date

bob

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ usage()
     echo "  unpublish <post>    unpublish the post"
 }
 
-
 init()
 {
     echo Name of the author of the blog :
@@ -58,29 +57,55 @@ init()
 
 update_index()
 {
-    # Listing all posts and making an html list (with there link) out of them
-    posts=$(ls -t ./posts | awk '
-        BEGIN {
-            print "<ul>"
-        } 
+    # Build lines with creation/modification epochs and formatted timestamps, safely handling spaces.
+    sorted_posts=$(
+        find ./posts -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.html' -print0 |
+        while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
+            # Try birth time; fallback to mtime if birth not available
+            creation_epoch=$(stat -c %W "$file" 2>/dev/null)
+            if [ -z "$creation_epoch" ] || [ "$creation_epoch" -le 0 ]; then
+                creation_epoch=$(stat -c %Y "$file")
+            fi
+
+            modification_epoch=$(stat -c %Y "$file")
+
+            # Human-readable timestamps
+            created_fmt=$(date -d @"$creation_epoch" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+            modified_fmt=$(date -d @"$modification_epoch" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+
+            name=$(basename "$file")
+
+            # Use pipe as delimiter (filename already basename so cannot contain '/'; could contain '|', but that's rare;
+            # if paranoid, choose NUL and handle differently). This is simple and readable.
+            printf '%s|%s|%s|%s|%s\n' "$creation_epoch" "$created_fmt" "$modification_epoch" "$modified_fmt" "$name"
+        done |
+        # sort by numeric creation epoch descending (field 1)
+        sort -t'|' -k1,1nr |
+        # produce HTML from each record using awk
+        awk -F'|' '
+        BEGIN { print "<ul>" }
         {
-            ref=$0
-            gsub(".html","",ref)
-            gsub(/[_-]/, " ", ref)
-            print "<li><a href=\"./posts/" $0 "\">" ref "</a></li>"
-        } 
-        END { 
-            print "</ul>"
-        }')
+            filename = $5
+            display = filename
+            sub(/\.html$/, "", display)
+            gsub(/[_-]/, " ", display)
+            # escape filename/display if needed (not done here); keep simple
+            printf "<li><a href=\"./posts/%s\">%s</a><div><p>created at %s</p><p>updated at %s</p></div></li>\n", filename, display, $2, $4
+        }
+        END { print "</ul>" }'
+    )
 
     # retrieving the template for the index.html
     template="${BOB_LIB}/template/index.html"
 
-    # replacing {{articles}} in the template with the actual list of articles from above
-    awk -v content="$posts" '{gsub(/{{articles}}/, content); print}' "$template" > "./index.html"
-
+    awk -v articles="$sorted_posts" '
+    {
+        gsub(/{{articles}}/, articles);
+        print
+    }' "$template" > "./index.html"
 }
 
+
 publish()
 { 
     # Storing the path of the post/article to publish 
@@ -194,3 +219,4 @@ elif [[ "$1" == "deploy" ]]; then
 elif [[ "$1" == "help" ]]; then
     usage
 fi
+