improve current entry count check, add tasks to readme

README.md

@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@ You can setup `cron` for running `compile.sh` and `rsync` commands which will ge
 - [ ] `Recent` section should include only 10 most recent entries. For now it's handled by checking the line count of the generated HTML, which is not ideal.
 - [x] `Current` section includes entries based on `_` prefix of the Markdown file, also not good. (done in [fce9acc](https://github.com/doneforaiur/yamb/commit/fce9acca2fa2cbdce26c03b269a52d3e1208eec6))
 - [x] Generate pages that are not shown as entries, but standalone articles. `books.html`, `podcasts.html`, etc.
+- [ ] `ls -t` and `stat` commands are not ideal since it sorts by modification time, not creation time. `--time=birth` is not available on *all* unix systems. Sorting the files based on the first line of the file which will include the desired date is a better solution. If date not present, take modification time.
 - [ ] RSS.

compile.sh

@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ for file in $(ls -t ./entries/standalone/*.md); do
 done
 
 # recent and archive entries
+index=0
 for file in $(ls -tr ./entries/recent/*.md); do
     basefilename="$(basename  $file)"
 
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ for file in $(ls -tr ./entries/recent/*.md); do
     rm ./tmp/archive_table.html
 
 
-    if [ "$(wc -l < ./tmp/recent.html)" -gt 60 ]; then
+    if [ $index -gt 9 ]; then
         continue
     fi
 
@@ -84,6 +85,8 @@ for file in $(ls -tr ./entries/recent/*.md); do
     sed -i "${insert_line}r ./tmp/recent_table.html" "./tmp/recent.html"
 
     rm ./tmp/recent_table.html
+
+    index=$((index+1))
 done
 
 for file in $(ls -t ./entries/soon/*.md); do