Is there a command line utility for rendering GitHub flavored Markdown?

Question

I\'m wondering if there is a command line utility for taking a GitHub flavored Markdown file and rendering it to HTML.

I\'m using a GitHub wiki to create website con

Answer 1

This is mostly a follow-on to @barry-staes's answer for using Pandoc. Homebrew has it as well, if you're on a Mac:

brew install pandoc

Pandoc supports GFM as an input format via the markdown_github name.

Output to file

cat foo.md | pandoc -f markdown_github > foo.html

Open in Lynx

cat foo.md | pandoc -f markdown_github | lynx -stdin # To open in Lynx

Open in the default browser on OS X

cat foo.md | pandoc -f markdown_github > foo.html && open foo.html # To open in the default browser on OS X`

TextMate Integration

You can always pipe the current selection or current document to one of the above, as most editors allow you to do. You can also easily configure the environment so that pandoc replaces the default Markdown processor used by the Markdown bundle.

First, create a shell script with the following contents (I'll call it ghmarkdown):

#!/bin/bash
# Note included, optional --email-obfuscation arg
pandoc -f markdown_github --email-obfuscation=references

You can then set the TM_MARKDOWN variable (in Preferences→Variables) to /path/to/ghmarkdown, and it will replace the default Markdown processor.