md2html
1#!/usr/bin/env bash
2#
3# convert markdown to HTML
4# can read from STDIN or file
5#
6# this is a *very* opinionated script, using:
7# gum, bat, perl, openssl, and xclip
8# pandoc is mandatory!!!
9# edit to suit your system
10
11# functions
12fromstdin() {
13 # declare some vars
14 MDFILE=$(mktemp --suffix .md)
15 HTMLFILE="${MDFILE%.*}.html"
16 HTMLFILE_FINAL="${HTMLFILE%.*}_final.html"
17 # prompt user to paste markdown formatted text, then write it to a temp file
18 gum write --header="paste MD-formatted text below" > "$MDFILE"
19 # the conversion!
20 pandoc --no-highlight --wrap=none "$MDFILE" -o "$HTMLFILE"
21 # swap unicode/HTML entities to their actual characters
22 perl -C -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_);' < "$HTMLFILE" > "$HTMLFILE_FINAL"
23 # show final file
24 batcat --paging=never "$HTMLFILE_FINAL"
25 # copy file to clipboard too
26 xclip -sel clip "$HTMLFILE_FINAL"
27 # cleanup
28 rm "$HTMLFILE"
29}
30
31fromfile() {
32 # declare some vars
33 MDFILE=$(gum file)
34 HTMLFILE="${MDFILE%.*}.html"
35 HTMLFILE_FINAL="${HTMLFILE%.*}_final.html"
36 # the conversion!
37 pandoc --no-highlight --wrap=none "$MDFILE" -o "$HTMLFILE"
38 # swap unicode/HTML entities to their actual characters
39 perl -C -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_);' < "$HTMLFILE" > "$HTMLFILE_FINAL"
40 # show final file
41 batcat --paging=never "$HTMLFILE_FINAL"
42 # copy file to clipboard too
43 xclip -sel clip "$HTMLFILE_FINAL"
44 # cleanup
45 rm "$HTMLFILE"
46}
47
48# execute it
49choice() {
50 choose=$(gum choose "paste" "file")
51 case "$choose" in
52 *paste) fromstdin ;;
53 *file) fromfile ;;
54 *) exit ;;
55 esac
56}
57
58choice