--- title: moved to new static site generator | daily.dev description: A developer introduces Stash, a minimalist static site generator written entirely in UNIX Shell in under 100 lines of code, replacing the previously used poole... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/moved-to-new-static-site-generator-jwzlfrfka twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: moved to new static site generator | daily.dev og:description: A developer introduces Stash, a minimalist static site generator written entirely in UNIX Shell in under 100 lines of code, replacing the previously used poole... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/moved-to-new-static-site-generator-jwzlfrfka og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jwzLFRFkA.png og:image:alt: moved to new static site generator og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # moved to new static site generator **[zserge's blog](https://daily.dev/sources/zserge)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer introduces Stash, a minimalist static site generator written entirely in UNIX Shell in under 100 lines of code, replacing the previously used poole generator. The post walks through installation via Mercurial, basic usage with Markdown content files and HTML layout templates using custom <% %> tags, and customization hooks (ongen, onexit) for building things like blog indexes. It also explains the internal pipeline (Shell to AWK to Shell to eval to Markdown to HTML) and documents several sharp edges around semicolon handling in generated shell statements, including a stark warning about the dangers of executing arbitrary shell commands in templates. The project is MIT-licensed and hosted on Bitbucket/GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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