Thesis - Generate thesis with pandoc and latex based on markdown input.

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/bash
clear



# Function to watch a folder
createThesis() {
     echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] `ls *.md | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,$/\n/'`"

    for i in *.md; do
        [ -e "$i" ] || break
        cat "$i" >> thesis.markdown
        cat enter.markdown >> thesis.markdown
    done

    sed -n '/[%]/!p' thesis.markdown > thesis-clean.markdown
    
    pandoc -s -S thesis-clean.markdown -o thesis-without.tex --variable=geometry:a4paper --variable fontsize=11pt --include-in-header=package.tex --latex-engine=xelatex --number-sections --toc
    sleep 5
    xelatex thesis-without
    sleep 2
    bibtex thesis-without
    sleep 2
    xelatex thesis-without
    sleep 5
    pandoc title.markdown -o "title.pdf" --variable mainfont='Corbel' --variable sansfont='Corbel' --latex-engine=xelatex
    sleep 10
    pdftk A="title.pdf" B="thesis-without.pdf" cat A B output "output/thesis.pdf"
    #Cleanup
    rm -rf thesis.markdown
    rm -rf thesis-without.pdf
    rm -rf title.pdf
}


watchdog() {
    chsum1=`find /Users//Dropbox/Thesis/Main/ -type f -name \*.md -exec md5 {} \;`

    while [[ true ]]
    do
        chsum2=`find /Users//Dropbox/Thesis/Main/ -type f -name \*.md -exec md5 {} \;`
        if [[ $chsum1 != $chsum2 ]] ; then
            #Report to the user
            echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] Woef! Change detected"
            createThesis
            echo "[`date +%H:%M:%S`] My work is done, resuming my watch!"
            chsum1=$chsum2
        fi
        sleep 2
    done
}

echo '['$(date +%H:%M:%S)'] Watchdog at your service!'
watchdog