Better date checkin via bin/check_dates

Author: MichaelRWolf

_posts/first-gpost.md _posts/2024-08-15-first-post.md

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: Lorem Ipsum
+date: 2024-08-15
 ---
 # Header 1
 

_posts/2024-08-16-second-post.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: default
 title: Second post (redux)
+date: 2024-08-16
 ---
 # Header 1
 

bin/check_dates

@@ -12,17 +12,20 @@ for file in "$POSTS_DIR"/*.md; do
   filename=$(basename "$file" .md)
 
   # Extract date from filename (assumes format YYYY-MM-DD-title)
-  file_date=$(echo "$filename" | cut -d'-' -f1-3 | sed 's/-//g')
+  file_date=$(echo "$filename" | perl -ne 's/^(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})/$1/ && print $1')
 
   # Extract date from front matter
-  frontmatter_date=$(sed -n 's/^date: \(.*\)/\1/p' "$file" | cut -d'T' -f1)
+  frontmatter_date=$( cat "$file" | perl -n -e '$front_matter .= $_ if /---/.../---/; END { print $1 if $front_matter =~ /date:\s+([0-9-]+)/;}')
 
   # Compare file date with front matter date
-  if [ "$file_date" != "$frontmatter_date" ]; then
-    echo "Inconsistency found in $file:"
-    echo "  Filename date: $file_date"
-    echo "  Front matter date: $frontmatter_date"
+  if [[ "$file_date" = '' ]] || [[ "$file_date" != "$frontmatter_date" ]]; then
+    echo "Inconsist or missing date info: $file"
+    echo "  Filename date:     '$file_date'"
+    echo "  Front matter date: '$frontmatter_date'"
     inconsistent=true
+  else
+      # echo "Consistent|$file|$filename|$file_date|$frontmatter_date|"
+      :
   fi
 done