simple markdown-to-PDF wrapper for pandoc

md2pdf.sh

#!/bin/bash

open=0
input=""
shortname=""

if [[ "$1" == "o" || "$1" == "-o" ]]
then
  open="1"
  input="$2"
  shortname=`echo "$2" | sed 's:\(\.[^\.]*\)$::g'`
else
  input="$1"
  shortname=`echo "$1" | sed 's:\(\.[^\.]*\)$::g'`
fi

# -R allows raw LaTeX
# -N does section numbers
# '> /dev...' hides the bib warnings

pandoc -f markdown -R -N \
--bibliography=/Users/alexd/Dropbox/texmf/bibtex/bib/everything.bib \
-o "$shortname".pdf "$input" \
> /dev/null 2>&1

if [ "$open" == "1" ]
then
  open "$shortname".pdf
fi