diff --git a/generatePostHtml b/generatePostHtml
index 9ef99ad..a6a7c5c 100755
--- a/generatePostHtml
+++ b/generatePostHtml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # $1 = Input file
 # $2 = Post ID
-if [[ $# < 2 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
+if [[ $# -lt 2 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 <path-to-post> <post-id>"
     exit 1
 fi
diff --git a/getPostTitle b/getPostTitle
index 764f5ed..3b711dd 100755
--- a/getPostTitle
+++ b/getPostTitle
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 #STDIN = post content
-head -n 1 | sed -r 's/^#+//g'
+head -n 1 | sed -r 's/^[# ]+//g'
diff --git a/idUnpublish b/idUnpublish
index 211a576..18600e7 100755
--- a/idUnpublish
+++ b/idUnpublish
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-if [[ $# < 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
+if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 <post-id>"
     exit 1
 fi
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ fi
 postid="$1"
 
 echo -n "Unpublish $postid? [y/N] "
-read confirm
+read -r confirm
 if [[ "$confirm" = "y" ]]; then
     rm "public/posts/$postid.html"
     rm "source/post_date/$postid"
diff --git a/makeIndex b/makeIndex
index 9a63f31..a5af75c 100755
--- a/makeIndex
+++ b/makeIndex
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-if [[ $# < 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
+if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 <num-posts>"
     exit 1
 fi
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ function postList() {
     #Get post list in reverse order and retrieve the last $indexLength posts
     #Generates HTML for them with the title and blurbs
     #Then removes the last two lines of the output to delete the extra <hr/>
-    cat source/post_list \
-        | perl -e 'print reverse <>' \
+    perl -e 'print reverse <>' < source/post_list \
         | head -n "$indexLength" \
-        | while read postid; do
+        | while read -r postid; do
             #Escape single quotes
             link="$(echo "posts/$postid.html" | sed "s/'/\\&#39;/g")"
             echo "
diff --git a/publish b/publish
index c552d21..96ca193 100755
--- a/publish
+++ b/publish
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-if [[ $# < 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
+if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 <path-to-post>"
     exit 1
 fi
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ blurb="$(tail -n +2 < "$file" \
 date="$(date '+%b %d, %Y')"
 
 #Replace spaces with dashes in the title, and lowercase it
-postid="$(echo $title | ./getPostID)"
+postid="$(echo "$title" | ./getPostID)"
 
 echo "ID: $postid"
 echo "Title: $title"
@@ -40,28 +40,28 @@ echo ""
 
 if grep "$postid" "source/post_list" &> /dev/null; then
     echo -n "Post exists with ID '$postid'. Update post? [y/N] "
-    read confirm_post
+    read -r confirm_post
     if [[ "$confirm_post" != "y" ]]; then
         exit 1
     fi
 else
     echo -n "Are you sure you want to post '$title'? [y/N] "
-    read confirm_post
+    read -r confirm_post
     if [[ "$confirm_post" != "y" ]]; then
         exit 1
     else
-        echo -n $title > "source/post_title/$postid"
-        echo -n $date > "source/post_date/$postid"
-        echo $postid >> "source/post_list"
+        echo -n "$title" > "source/post_title/$postid"
+        echo -n "$date" > "source/post_date/$postid"
+        echo "$postid" >> "source/post_list"
     fi
 fi
 
 #Regenerate blurb when editing posts
-echo -n $blurb > "source/post_blurb/$postid"
+echo -n "$blurb" > "source/post_blurb/$postid"
 ./generatePostHtml "$file" "$postid"
 
 POST="source/post_content/$postid.html" \
-TITLE="$title"
+TITLE="$title" \
     ./makePost > "./public/posts/$postid.html"
 
 ./makeIndices
diff --git a/regenPosts b/regenPosts
index 5124ab5..550d6e9 100755
--- a/regenPosts
+++ b/regenPosts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 find ./posts -type f \
-    | while read postfile; do
+    | while read -r postfile; do
         title="$(./getPostTitle < "$postfile")"
-        postid="$(echo $title | ./getPostID)" 
+        postid="$(echo "$title" | ./getPostID)" 
         if grep "$postid" "source/post_list" &> /dev/null; then
             echo "Regenerating $postid"
             ./generatePostHtml "$postfile" "$postid"
diff --git a/unpublish b/unpublish
index 48883fc..918aa92 100755
--- a/unpublish
+++ b/unpublish
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-if [[ $# < 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
+if [[ $# -lt 1 ]] || [[ "$1" == "-h" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--help" ]]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 <path-to-post>"
     exit 1
 fi
 
 title="$(./getPostTitle < "$1")"
-postid="$(echo $title | ./getPostID)"
+postid="$(echo "$title" | ./getPostID)"
 ./unpublish "$postid"