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Script to create web page from markdown file using pandoc and then update website via git
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md-to-html.sh
#!/bin/bash
# md-to-html.sh
# Script to create web page from markdown file using Pandoc
read -e -p "Enter filename: " mdFile
tmpFile=`cat $mdFile`
echo "$tmpFile" > forPandoc.txt
title="${mdFile%.*}"
echo "<html>
<head>
<title>"$title"</title>
</head>
<body>" > htmlFile.html
pandoc -f markdown -t html forPandoc.txt >> htmlFile.html
echo "</body></html>" >> htmlFile.html
extension=".html"
newFile="${title}${extension}"
mv -i htmlFile.html $newFile
git commit -m "change from script" $newFile | git push
rm forPandoc.txt
echo "All done. Your file is called $newFile."
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