A little bash script to format manuscripts with Pandoc

format_manuscripts.sh

#!/bin/sh

echo "Formatting manuscripts..."

for i in "$@"
do
case $i in
    -f=*|--filename=*)
    FILENAME="${i#*=}"
    shift # past argument=value
    ;;
    *)
            # unknown option
    ;;
esac
done
echo "FILENAME: ${FILENAME}"

if [[ -n $1 ]]; then
    echo "Last line of file specified as non-opt/last argument:"
    tail -1 $1
fi

if [ ! pandoc ]; then
  echo "Pandoc not found; installing..."
  sudo apt install pandoc
  echo "Done."
fi

if [ ! -d formatted ]; then
  echo "Creating directory for formatted manuscripts ..."
  mkdir formatted
  echo "Done."
fi

cd formatted/

pandoc ../"${FILENAME}.md" -s  --output "${FILENAME}.odt"

libreoffice "${FILENAME}.odt"

pandoc ../"${FILENAME}.md" -s  --output "${FILENAME}.docx"

libreoffice "${FILENAME}.docx"

echo "Finished!"
exit