Helper script utilising Pandoc and Emacs' ediff to compare changes in all sorts of text documents

docompare.sh

#! /usr/bin/env bash

for f in "$@"
do
   pandoc --to=markdown "$f" -o "$f.md"
done

if [ $# -eq 3 ];
then
  emacs -q --eval "(require 'ediff)" --eval "(ediff-files3 \"$1.md\" \"$2.md\" \"$3.md\")"
elif [ $# -eq 2 ];
then
  emacs -q --eval "(require 'ediff)" --eval "(ediff-files \"$1.md\" \"$2.md\")"
fi

for f in "$@"
do
  rm -i "$f.md"
done