added script that was used to clean up my current markdown files for my

blog.

powershell/BlogPost-Cleanup-Script.ps1

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+##
+## This script will be used to format my *.md files for my blog so that
+## they can live inside of a nextjs application (or any other static site
+## system that supports this format)
+##
+$files = get-childitem -path "." -Filter *.md
+
+## the directory where the formatted files will be copied to
+$output = "c:\users\ed\Desktop\posts\output\"
+
+foreach($file in $files) { 
+    $fileName = $file.Name
+    $datePortion = $file.Name.Substring(0, 10)
+    $fileLength = $fileName.Length;
+    $fileNameWithNoDate = $file.Name.Substring(11, ($fileLength - 11))
+
+    # We need to add the following line to each file so that it can be used
+    # when building out the blog post:
+    # date: "2014-12-22" 
+    # This date field will then be used to show the date on the post
+    $fileContent = Get-Content $file
+    $fileContent[1] += [System.Environment]::NewLine + "date: `"$($datePortion)`""
+    $fileContent | Set-Content $file
+
+    # Now we need to create a new file name without the date portion
+    # so that it's nicely formatted
+    copy-item $file -Destination "$($output)$($fileNameWithNoDate)"
+    Write-Output "Done with file $($fileName)"
+}
+