On Monday, 3 January 2022 at 20:51:04 UTC+2 John MacFarlane wrote:

There is a way, but it's a bit complex.
First, create a template title.template containing just

```
$title-string$
```

Then:

for f in *.md; do pandoc "$f" -o "$(pandoc $f --template title.template -t plain).pdf"; done

SlyFox <iv...@staroversky.com> writes:

> YAML Metada looks like this
>
> ```
> ---
> Tag: tag1, tag2
> title: "Title I want to use"
> Status: active
> Name: "John Smith"
> ---
> ```
>
> I currently use this command
>
> ```
> for f in *.md; do pandoc "$f" -o "${f%.md}.pdf"; done
> ```
>
> How do I set the command so that the file name will be taken from the title
> metadata?
>
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