Build Gitbook PDF using Pandoc

gitbook_to_pdf.sh

# #!/bin/bash

GITBOOK_REP=$1
SUMMARY_FILE="SUMMARY.md"
echo $OUTPUT_FILE

if [ -d "$GITBOOK_REP" ]; then

  echo "Entering directory '$GITBOOK_REP'..."
  cd $GITBOOK_REP
  if [ -f "$SUMMARY_FILE" ]; then
    # read summary and get texts by order in a single big file
    pandoc $SUMMARY_FILE -t html | \
      grep -o '<a href=['"'"'"][^"'"'"']*['"'"'"]' | \
      sed -e 's/^<a href=["'"'"']//' -e 's/["'"'"']$//'| \
      xargs cat | \
      pandoc -f markdown --variable fontsize=10pt \
              --variable=geometry:b5paper \
              --variable mainfont="Arial" \
             --variable documentclass=scrbook --toc --latex-engine=xelatex -o book.pdf
  else
    echo "File '$SUMMARY_FILE' does not exist"
  fi
else
echo "Directory '$GITBOOK_REP' does not exist"
fi

This will generate a PDF from a set of markdown files described by links in SUMMARY.md (gitbook format)

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Thank you!!

latex-engine was deprecated. Replace it by --pdf-engine=xelatex.

Isn't possible to simplify the list of .MD files by e.g.:
MD_FILES = grep -o '[a-z0-9/-]\+\.md' SUMMARY.md | grep -v index.md