---
name: "jekyll-b"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "jekyll"
version: "4.3.4+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jekyll-b"
---

# jekyll-b(1)

build a website from its sources

## NAME

jekyll\_build - build a website from its sources

## USAGE

**jekyll build \[***options...***\]**

## OPTIONS

The following options control the **build** command.

- **--config** *CONFIG\_FILE***\[,***CONFIG\_FILE2***,...\]**

  Use one or more (custom) configuration files instead of or together with *\_config.yml*. Settings specified in later files override earlier definitions.

- **-b, --baseurl** *URL*

  Serve the website from the given base *URL*.

- **-I, --incremental**

  Enable incremental rebuilds. Only generate documents and pages that were updated since the previous build. The file *.jekyll-metadata* keeps track of both file modification times and inter-document dependencies.

- **-w, --\[no-\]watch**

  Watch for changes and rebuild the changed sites from source. This

- **--limit\_posts** *MAX\_POSTS*

  Limit the number of posts to parse and publish.

- **--future**

  Publish posts or collection documents with a future date.

- **-D, --drafts**

  Process and render posts in the \_drafts folder (defaults to *no*).

- **--unpublished**

  Render posts that are marked as unpublished (defaults to *no*).

- **--force\_polling**

  Force watch to use polling.

- **--lsi**

  Use a Latent Semantic Indexer (LSI) like *classifier-reborn* for an improved related posts feature.

- **--strict\_front\_matter**

  Fail the build if errors are present in the front matter.

- **-q, --quiet**

  Silence output.

- **-V, --verbose**

  Print verbose output.

For a list of general options please read the [**jekyll**(1)](/jekyll/1.md) manual page.

## SEE ALSO

[**jekyll-serve**(1)](/jekyll-serve/1.md)**,** [**jekyll**(1)](/jekyll/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by **Daniel Leidert** \<dleidert@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).