mandown
| Crates.io | mandown |
| lib.rs | mandown |
| version | 0.1.5 |
| source | src |
| created_at | 2020-04-23 00:44:50.956462 |
| updated_at | 2024-10-28 18:06:15.792542 |
| description | Markdown to groff (man page) converter |
| homepage | https://lib.rs/mandown |
| repository | https://gitlab.com/kornelski/mandown.git |
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| size | 20,848 |
Kornel (kornelski)
documentation
README
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