Convert Markdown to man pages

This can be used as a Rust library or as a command-line executable.

Installation

• Install Rust 1.42 or later

• Run cargo install mandown

Usage

The mandown command takes a path as an argument, and prints 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