Convert and email a markdown file to my Kindle

md2kindle.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Convert and email MarkDown file to Kindle

MD_FILE=$1
HTML_FILE=`basename "$MD_FILE" .md`
HTML_FILE='/tmp/'$HTML_FILE".html"
KINDLE_HEADER='/home/peio/bin/kindle.header'

# Create header
cat $KINDLE_HEADER > "$HTML_FILE"

# Markdown to content
/usr/bin/markdown -x toc -x def_list -x footnotes -e utf-8  "$MD_FILE" >> "$HTML_FILE"

# Footer
echo '</body></html>' >> "$HTML_FILE"

echo "Send file" | mailx -s "Reads" -a "$HTML_FILE" peio@kindle.com

echo $HTML_FILE" sent"

rm "$HTML_FILE"

exit 0