A bin/plaintext.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh 
+
+# from the pure sh bible; see: 
+# https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible#get-the-base-name-of-a-file-path
+basename() {
+    dir=${1%${1##*[!/]}}
+    dir=${dir##*/}
+    dir=${dir%"$2"}
+    base="${dir:-/}"
+}
+
+for p in pages/blog/*.md; do
+    basename "$p"
+    [ "$base" != "_index.md" ] &&
+        cp "$p" "build/blog/${base%.*}.txt"
+done

M config.py → config.py

@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@ <img class="footimgs" alt="xxiivv webring" src="/static/webring.svg">
         </a>
         """
 template = 'text.html'  # default is index.html
-post_build = ['./bin/rss.py']
+post_build = ['./bin/rss.py', './bin/plaintext.sh']