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Convert a folder of Word files to markdown using Pandoc
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convert-word-files-to-markdown.sh
for filename in edited/*.docx; do
pandoc -s $filename -t markdown_mmd --extract-media "media-`$filename | cut -d- -f1-2`" --wrap=none --smart --normalize -o "`basename $filename .docx`".md
done
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