Markdown.pl (1) Linux Manual Page
Markdown.pl – Convert Markdown syntax to (X)HTML
Description
This program is distributed as part of Perl’s Text::Markdown module, illustrating sample usage.Markdown can be invoked on any file containing Markdown-syntax, and will produce the corresponding (X)HTML on STDOUT:
$ cat file.txtIf no file is specified, it will expect its input from STDIN:
This is a *test*.
Absolutely _nothing_ to see here. _Just a **test**_!
* test
* Yup, test.
$ Markdown.pl file.txt
<p>This is a <em>test</em>.</p>
<p>Absolutely <em>nothing</em> to see here. <em>Just a <strong>test</strong></em>!</p>
<ul>
<li>test</li>
<li>Yup, test.</li>
</ul>
$ echo "A **simple** test" | markdown
<p>A <strong>simple</strong> test</p>
Options
- version
- Shows the full information for this version
- shortversion
- Shows only the version number
- html4tags
- Produce HTML 4-style tags instead of XHTML – XHTML requires elements that do not wrap a block (i.e. the "hr" tag) to state they will not be closed, by closing with "/>". HTML 4-style will plainly output the tag as it comes:
$ echo ‘—‘ | markdown
<hr />
$ echo ‘—‘ | markdown –html4tags
<hr> - help
- Shows this documentation
Author
Copyright 2004 John GruberCopyright 2008 Tomas Doran
The manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf [at] debian.org> for its use in Debian systems, but can be freely used elsewhere.
For full licensing information, please refer to Text::Markdown.pm’s full documentation.