Jekyll Cache Saving the Day

I was in the midst of publishing a post on announcing that QNX released a non-commercial license which allows hobbyist to fiddle around but I accidentally deleted my file using the cp command. This effectively killed my mood as I did not want to rewrite everything from scratch. I then recall that Jekyll creates a cache to speed up the build process when converting markdown to HTML.

$ ls -ld .?* 
drwxr-xr-x. 1 zaku zaku 204 Dec 16 23:47 .git
-rw-r--r--. 1 zaku zaku   0 Oct 20 19:55 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x. 1 zaku zaku  32 Oct 20 19:56 .jekyll-cache

If we were to traverse into the cache and into Jekyll-Converters--Markdown, you’ll see a lot of directories labelled what it appears to be in hex:

.jekyll-cache/Jekyll/Cache/Jekyll--Converters--Markdown$ ls
0e  1c  22  24  2e  37  3f  44  47  53  57  5d  62  66  6e  74  7b  84  8d  90  91  9c  a7  a9  aa  ab  b1  b3  b6  c1  c6  cb  d4  d5  e1  e2  ea  f9  fc

Using my trust tool grep, I was able to patch up pieces of my work. However, as the purpose of Jekyll-Converters--Markdown is to cache markdown files that have been converted to HTML, I obviously had to clean it up a bit but regardless, it was much faster than to rewrite the entire article.