View GitHub Markdown files in a console

less

#!/bin/bash

function help {
  echo "View GitHub markdown files in a console using less. 

1. Install pandoc and lynx. 
  a. For Ubuntu (and WSL): sudo apt install pandoc lynx
  b. For MacOS: brew install pandoc lynx

2. Name the this script as less and save it somewhere on the PATH, for example /usr/local/bin.
3. Make the script executable, for example: chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/less.
4. Type 'hash -r' or /usr/bin/less will run instead of this script
5. Type 'less myfile.md' to view a file as usual; this script will handle files with filetype md as GitHub markdown and render colorized output to the console
"
  exit 1
}

if [ "$1" == -h ]; then help; fi
  
if [ "${1##*.}" == md ]; then
  pandoc "$1" | lynx -stdin
else
  /usr/bin/less "$1"
fi