less-style markdown viewer for UNIX systems

Question

I have a Markdown string in JavaScript, and I\'d like to display it (with bolding, etc) in a less (or, I suppose, more)-style viewer for the comman

Answer 1

I wrote a couple functions based on Keith's answer:

mdt() {
    markdown "$*" | lynx -stdin
}

mdb() {
    local TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
    markdown "$*" > $TMPFILE && ( xdg-open $TMPFILE > /dev/null 2>&1 & )
}

If you're using zsh, just place those two functions in ~/.zshrc and then call them from your terminal like

mdt README.md
mdb README.md

"t" is for "terminal", "b" is for browser.