6 releases
new 0.1.5 | Oct 28, 2024 |
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0.1.4 | Jul 1, 2024 |
0.1.3 | Jan 16, 2022 |
0.1.2 | Oct 31, 2020 |
0.1.1 | Apr 23, 2020 |
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Convert Markdown to man pages
This can be used as a Rust library, or as a command-line executable.
CLI installation
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Install Rust 1.74 or later
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Run
cargo install mandown
CLI usage
The mandown
command takes a path as an argument, and prints the manpage to stdout.
mandown README.md > converted.1
man ./converted.1
You can specify path as -
to read markdown from stdin. Second and third argument can specify program name and manpage section.
cat README.md | mandown - MYPROGRAM 1 > converted.1
man ./converted.1
Dependencies
~2.5MB
~41K SLoC