Tools for working with Frontmatter

• Front Matter | Hugo
• Front Matter Manipulator - A utility for parsing and manipulating documents with Front Matter. Get the fields, values for any collection of documents. Bulk update, delete, or rename fields.
• Python Frontmatter - see also: How to parse frontmatter with python
• karlredman/EditFrontMatter - Batch edit front matter with Jinja2 templates for python3.
• khalednassar/obyde - A minimal tool to convert a “standardly” configured Obsidian vault to a Jekyll-based blog.
• Batch markdown edits anyone? - HUGO
• dworthen/js-yaml-front-matter - Parses yaml or json from the beginning of a string or file
• Script to add a page level variable to content front matter in Hugo

Scripts

• hugo preproc - file pre-processor for Hugo
• Script - Front Matter Add Aliases from Slug - add aliases variable to each file’s front matter from slug variable value
• Note normalization for Zettelkasten - Note normalization. Add YAML Front Matter/UIDs and rename files, replace Wikilinks with Markdown links, etc.
• Hexoer - python script to add front matter (hexo)

Convert Hugo directory from YAML <–> TOML

hugo convert toYAML --output content_as_yaml

Shell script to prepend frontmatter from template

This script finds markdown files, then prepends YAML front matter following the template from prepend.sh.

## For each result of find call our script to run on the filename
$ find . -name "*.md" -print0 | xargs -0 -I file ./prepend.sh file

## Given a file path as an argument

## 1. get the file name

## 2. prepend template string to the top of the source file

## 3. resave original source file

filepath="$1"
file_name=$(basename $filepath)

## Getting the file name (title)

md='.md'
title=${file_name%$md}

## Prepend front-matter to files

TEMPLATE="---
layout: page
title: $title
category: gen
---

"
echo "$TEMPLATE" | cat - "$filepath" > temp && mv temp "$filepath"