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jaypsan/md-to-pdf-build.sh

Created August 24, 2023 20:09
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bash script for md-to-pdf Node JS CLI tool. Iterate through all folders within the script directory and, for each, concatenate all .md files and convert to PDF to ./_dist
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md-to-pdf-build.sh
for d in ./*/; do
# Trim last "/" from "$d
folderName=${d%*/}
# remove text until last "/"
folderName=${folderName##*/}
# checks if folder name starts with underline (_)
# yes: stop loop here
# no: continue
if [[ $folderName == _* ]]; then continue; fi
# Create _dist directory if it does not exist
mkdir -p ./_dist
# Run md-to-pdf CLI commant to convert all files within the folder
# to a single pdf file with the same name in the ./_dist directory.
cat $d/*.md | md-to-pdf > ./_dist/$folderName.pdf --config-file ./pdf_options.js
done
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