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mmdp.sh
# Preview (multi)markdown documents in the preferred browser.
function mmdp() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "Usage: mmdp FILE"
return 1
fi
# Determine how to open a file based on OS, and what MMD binary to use:
local OS=$(uname -s)
case $OS in
# on Mac OS X:
"Darwin" )
local OPEN="open"
local MMD="$(type -P multimarkdown)"
;;
# on Linux:
"Linux" )
local OPEN="xdg-open"
local MMD="/usr/bin/MultiMarkdown.pl"
;;
# on other OSs:
* )
# Exit before making who knows what mess.
echo "Failed. OS not supported." 1>&2
return 1
;;
esac
if [ ! -x "$MMD" ]; then
echo "Failed. MultiMarkdown required." 1>&2
return 1
fi
# Add metadata in order to get full HTML with html, head & body tags.
# You should change "format:complete" for "css:path" for custom CSS.
echo "format:complete" > "/tmp/multimarkdown-preview.md"
# If MMD doc had no metadata, add a newline.
if [[ "`head -n1 \"$1\"`" != *:* ]]; then
echo "" >> "/tmp/multimarkdown-preview.md"
fi
cat "$1" >> "/tmp/multimarkdown-preview.md"
# Convert from MMD to HTML.
"$MMD" "/tmp/multimarkdown-preview.md" > \
"/tmp/multimarkdown-preview.html"
# Add UTF-8 encoding declaration
sed -i'' -e "s/<head>/<head>\\`echo -e '\r'` <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" \/>/;" /tmp/multimarkdown-preview.html
"$OPEN" "/tmp/multimarkdown-preview.html"
}
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