Quickly convert a markdown file into a nice looking PDF formatted in the same way GitHub formats Readme.md files

README.md

Markdown to PDF

Quickly convert a markdown file into a nice looking PDF formatted in the same way GitHub formats Readme.md files

• Install grip $ pip install grip
• Install wkhtmltopdf $ sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

markdown-pdf.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Install grip $ pip install grip
# Install wkhtmltopdf $ sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

md=$1
pdf=$2
port=$(( ( RANDOM % 6000 )  + 5000 ))

echo $port

grip $md localhost:$port &
sleep 10
wkhtmltopdf http://localhost:$port $pdf
kill $(ps -eo pid,command | grep "grip" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}')

The random port is because it gave me port errors before I worked out how to kill it. Probably not needed but it's helpful to have a reminder of how to make random numbers in Bash.