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How to view Markdown documents more easily in Mac OSX Terminal
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  • Install a couple of tools (markdown renders markdown as html, and the lynx browser) using homebrew:
brew install markdown lynx
  • When you want to view a markdown document from the commandline, render it with markdown and pipe the output to lynx:
markdown README.md | lynx -stdin
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