Re: Merging and converting a Windows folder?

[BPJ <bpj-J3H7GcXPSITLoDKTGw+V6w@public.gmane.org>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2490 bytes --]

You can just list the files on the command line as multiple inputs and
pandoc will merge them automatically:

pandoc -o merged.ext chap-1.md chap-2.md chap-3.md

(where .ext is .html, .pdf or whatever.)

Tip: if the files have different names you can give them leading
zero-padded (all with the same number of digits) at the start of the file
names:

0010-foreword.md
0020-introduction.md
0030-problem.md
0040-this.md
...
0070-that.md
...
0100-conclusions.md

And then you should be able to just say

pandoc -o merged.ext *.md

and the files should be correctly ordered by the shell.

The point of "spacing out" the numbers as I did above is that if you add or
rearrange a file you can just change its number to something intermediate
instead of renumbering all the files; e.g. if you want to move the "that"
chapter to before the "this" chapter you just rename it 0035-that.md. I
realize that e.g. in a dissertation you are not as likely to rearrange
chapters, but e.g. in documentation, where I work nowadays, it happens with
some frequency.

I hope this is helpful.

/bpj

Den ons 18 jan. 2023 15:58Robert Kingett <kingettspeaks-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> I've tried to look online, for both a powershell command and a CMD
> command, possibly even a batch file, that would concatenate/merge multiple
> Markdown, .MD, files in a directory and then output it as one, merged,
> file, but nothing I've found works, so could someone point me in the right
> direction?
>
> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "pandoc-discuss" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
> To view this discussion on the web visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/8da3b66e-f14a-49d3-9b65-826df906073an%40googlegroups.com
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/8da3b66e-f14a-49d3-9b65-826df906073an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>
> .
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CADAJKhCQ0w7VXPPYBvE%3D0qJ7ip1TyMe3bWvJH3oGmF1b4tuBnA%40mail.gmail.com.

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3906 bytes --]