The Gerbil CLI

To see the CLI commands available, run gerbil at a command prompt:

$ gerbil
Usage:
  gerbil {SUBCMD}  [sub-command options & parameters]
where {SUBCMD} is one of:
  help          print comprehensive or per-cmd help
  create
  serve
  clean
  build
  list
  watchcontent

gerbil {-h|--help} or with no args at all prints this message.
gerbil --help-syntax gives general cligen syntax help.
Run "gerbil {help SUBCMD|SUBCMD --help}" to see help for just SUBCMD.
Run "gerbil help" to get *comprehensive* help.

gerbil create

This command is used to create new content. See examples here

gerbil serve

Serves the website (default on port 5000). To serve on another port, set the SERVER_PORT environment variable, e.g.:

export SERVER_PORT=5002

gerbil clean

Deletes files (e.g. HTML files) created during the build process.

gerbil build

Builds the markdown files into HTML files, along with breadcrumb navigation and topic pages.

gerbil list

Lists all of the articles created.

gerbil watchcontent

This is used to build a piece of content on an interval.