a zathura wrapper script for displaying markdown and pdf files using pandoc

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#!/bin/bash

# add this to `$HOME/.local/bin` or somewhere in your $PATH
# TODO: implement hash-based caching system to prevent unnecessary pandoc conversion calls

print_usage() {
	echo "Zathura wrapper for displaying md and pdf files"
	echo -e "Usage:\n\tz FILENAME"
}

if [[ $# == 0 ]]
then
	print_usage
	exit 1
fi

if [[ ("$1" == "-h") || ("$1" == "--help") ]]
then
	print_usage
	exit 0
fi

EXT=${1##*.}

if [[ "$EXT" == "pdf" ]]
then
	zathura $1
elif [[ "$EXT" == "md" ]]
then
	tempFile="/tmp/${1%%.*}.pdf"
	pandoc $1 -o $tempFile
	zathura $tempFile
else
	echo "Only PDF or MD files!"
	exit 1
fi