Using p5-text-markdown

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:03:51PM -0500, Tim Visher said:
> Sorry, I'm pretty new to perl CPAN type stuff.  I've used Markdown a
> lot through the Web Dingus and through Text Wrangler, but that man
> page doesn't really tell me how to use it from the command line as far
> as I can tell.

The p5-* ports are usually just modules so don't always install standalone
scripts (like p5-text-markdown).  So you'd either have to get one someplace
or write it; fortunately this one is pretty simple:


#!/opt/local/bin/perl
#
use Text::Markdown 'markdown';
open( TEXTFILE, "<$ARGV[ 0 ]" );
print markdown( join( '', <TEXTFILE> ) );
close( TEXTFILE );


Save that to a file (eg markdown.pl), chmod +x it, and it should work for
you.

Bryan


> 
> What would be an example command to execute it?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Bryan Blackburn <blb at macports.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:16:39PM -0500, Tim Visher said:
> >> Hello Everyone,
> >>
> >> I installed p5-text-markdown and now I can't figure out how to use it.  Tips?
> >
> > You probably want to start out with 'man Text::Markdown'.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> In Christ,
> >>
> >> Timmy V.
> >>
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> >
> 
> -- 
> 
> In Christ,
> 
> Timmy V.
> 
> http://burningones.com/
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