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 personally use this script:

#!/bin/bash
id=$(uuidgen | cut -c -8)
markdown $1 > /tmp/md-$id
google-chrome --app=file:///tmp/md-$id

It renders the markdown into HTML, puts it into a file in /tmp/md-... and opens that in a kiosk chrome session with no URI bar etc.. You just pass the md file as an argument or pipe it into stdin. Requires markdown and Google Chrome. Chromium should also work but you need to replace the last line with

chromium-browser --app=file:///tmp/md-$id

If you wanna get fancy about it, you can use some css to make it look nice, I edited the script and made it use Bootstrap3 (overkill) from a CDN.

#!/bin/bash
id=$(uuidgen | cut -c -8)
markdown $1 > /tmp/md-$id
sed -i "1i " /tmp/md-$id
echo "" >> /tmp/md-$id
google-chrome --app=file:///tmp/md-$id > /dev/null 2>&1 &