Jekyll Commands
The Jekyll gem makes a jekyll executable available to you in your terminal. The jekyll program has several commands but the structure is always:
jekyll command [argument] [option] [argument_to_option]
Examples: jekyll new site/ –blank jekyll serve –config _alternative_config.yml
Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production.
For a full list of options and their argument, see Build Command Options. Here are some of the most common commands:
jekyll new PATH
Creates a new Jekyll site with default gem-based theme at specified path. The directories will be created as necessary.
jekyll new PATH --blank
Creates a new blank Jekyll site scaffold at specified path.
jekyll build
or jekyll b - Performs a one off build your site to ./_site (by default).
jekyll serve
or jekyll s - Builds your site any time a source file changes and serves it locally.
jekyll clean
Removes all generated files: destination folder, metadata file, Sass and Jekyll caches.
jekyll help
Shows help, optionally for a given subcommand, e.g. jekyll help build.
jekyll new-theme
Creates a new Jekyll theme scaffold.
jekyll doctor
Outputs any deprecation or configuration issues.
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