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+#! /bin/bash
+
+# just gonna assume you're executing in the scripts folder
+
+# build the blog files
+cd ../blog
+CONTENTNUM=$(ls content* | wc -l )
+for i in {0..$CONTENTNUM}
+do
+	cat filehead "content$i" filetail "quote$i" > blog-00$i
+done
+
+# clean up non prod files
+cd ../
+rm -rf .git scripts .index.html.* README.md
+find . -type f | xargs chmod 600
+find . -type d | xargs chmod 700