7 files changed, 132 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/example/entries/entries.sh b/example/entries/entries.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0479d96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/entries/entries.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# add a special header to all entries
+cat << EOF
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <title>$1</title>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>my blog</h1>
+EOF
+
+# make this page be the index if it is called with no arguments
+[ -z "$1" ] && {
+    cat << EOF
+    <h2>blog entries</h2>
+    <ul>
+EOF
+    # list all the files in the directory
+    for file in *.md; do
+        printf "<li><a href=\"%s\">%s</a></li>" "${file%.*}.html" "$file"
+    done
+
+    cat << EOF
+    </ul>
+EOF
+
+} || {
+    # convert the markdown page to html text
+    md2html $1
+
+    # add a back button
+    cat << EOF
+<span><a href="entries.html">go back to list</a></span>
+EOF
+}
+
+# and a footer
+cat << EOF
+</body>
+</html>
+EOF
+
diff --git a/example/entries/entry1.md b/example/entries/entry1.md
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..82917c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/entries/entry1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!./entries.sh
+
+# first blog entry
+
+hello welcome to my test blog. here i will be talking about blah 
+
+## something else
+
+i probably have something else to say here
+
+## conclusion
+
+this is the conclusion, thank you
diff --git a/example/entries/entry2.md b/example/entries/entry2.md
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..54b978d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/entries/entry2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!./entries.sh
+
+# day 2
+
+this is a second entry to my blog
+
+i learned how to make text **bold** and *italic* 
+
+wow isnt that ***cool???***
diff --git a/src/test.md b/example/index.md
index 203d425..1be4e1f 100644..100755
--- a/src/test.md
+++ b/example/index.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env md2html
+
 # This is a test md file hello
 
 This is *italics* this is **bold** this is ***both*** wow (this is in brackets ssh) and [this is in square brackets not a anchor lol]
diff --git a/src/md2html.sh b/src/md2html.sh
index 590cdaa..846498a 100755
--- a/src/md2html.sh
+++ b/src/md2html.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@ cat () {
     while IFS= read -r line; do printf "%s\n" "$line"; done < "$1"
 }
 
+# remove a shebang from the start of the file
+_remove_shebang () {
+    IFS= read -r line
+    case "$line" in
+        "#!"*) ;;
+        *) printf "%s\n" "$line"
+    esac
+
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        printf "%s\n" "$line"
+    done
+}
+
 # remove traling whitespace from empty lines
 #
 _pre_strip () {
@@ -396,7 +409,8 @@ _squash () {
 # convert the markdown from stdin into html
 #
 md2html () {
-    _pre_strip \
+    _remove_shebang \
+    | _pre_strip \
     | _code \
     | _pre_emph \
     | _blockquote \
@@ -414,8 +428,7 @@ md2html () {
     | _h 3 \
     | _h 2 \
     | _h 1 \
-    | _squash \
-    | _html
+    | _squash
 }
 
 [ -z "$*" ] \
diff --git a/src/shblg b/src/shblg
index ff10250..226216c 100644..100755
--- a/src/shblg
+++ b/src/shblg
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ PAGE_TEMPLATE=blog/template.html
 while getopts ":o:i:t:" opt; do
     case "$opt" in
         o)
-            OUTPUT_DIR=$(realpath $OPTARG)
+            OUTPUT_DIR=$OPTARG/
+            mkdir -p $OUTPUT_DIR
+            OUTPUT_DIR=$(realpath $OUTPUT_DIR)
             ;;
         i)
             INPUT_DIR=$(realpath $OPTARG)
@@ -18,6 +20,29 @@ while getopts ":o:i:t:" opt; do
     esac
 done
 
-for f in ${INPUT_DIR}/*.md; do
-        md2html "$f" > ${OUTPUT_DIR}/$f
-done
+# process a file to 
+process () {
+    path="${1#$INPUT_DIR}"
+    dirpath="${1%${1##*/}}"
+    out_file="${OUTPUT_DIR}${path}"
+
+    [ -d "$1" ] && {
+        mkdir -p "$out_file"
+        for f in "$1"/*; do
+            process "$f"
+        done 
+        return 0
+    } || [ -x "$1" ] && {
+        # execute the file
+        cd $dirpath
+        "$1" > "${out_file%.*}.html"
+        cd -
+        return 0
+    } || {
+        # just output the file as is
+        while IFS= read -r line; do printf "%s\n" "$line"; done < "$1" > "$out_file"
+        return 0
+    }
+}
+
+process "$INPUT_DIR"
diff --git a/src/test.sh b/src/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..84c5405
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+
+line="hell 			o world"
+# replace tabs with spaces
+l="$line"
+line=
+while [ "$l" ]; do
+    c="${l%*${l#?}}"
+    case "$c" in
+        "\t") line="$line    ";;
+        *) line="$line$c" ;;
+    esac
+    l="${l#?}"
+    printf "%s\n" "$c"
+done
+printf "%s\n" "$line"
+