README.md

Walkdown

Walks a directory looking for Markdown files and converts them to HTML.

Installing

$ git clone https://gist.github.com/6002636.git
$ cd 6002636
$ sudo npm install -g

Using

$ walkdown [source directory] [output directory]

Credits

Dedicated to @evangoer. You should go buy his YUI 3 Cookbook!

index.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

var glob = require("glob"),
    markdown = require( "markdown" ).markdown,
    path = require("path"),
    fs = require("fs"),
    mkdirp = require("mkdirp"),
    indir = process.argv[2],
    outdir = process.argv[3];

glob(indir + '/**/*.md', function (er, files) {
    files.forEach(function(file){
    	var infile = file,
    	    outfile = infile.replace(indir, outdir).replace(/md$/, 'html'),
    	    output = markdown.toHTML(fs.readFileSync(infile, 'utf-8'));

    	mkdirp.sync(path.dirname(outfile));
    	fs.writeFileSync(outfile, output);
    });
});

package.json

{
    "name": "walkdown",
    "dependencies": {
        "glob": "3.2.x",
        "markdown": "0.4.0",
        "mkdirp": "0.3.x"
    },
    "bin": {
        "walkdown": "./index.js"
    }
}