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Command Line Usage

The Jekyll gem makes a jekyll executable available to you in your terminal.

You can use this command in a number of ways:

• 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 doctor - Outputs any deprecation or configuration issues
• 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

Typically you’ll use jekyll serve while developing locally and jekyll build when you need to generate the site for production.

To change Jekyll’s default build behavior have a look through the configuration options.