Shell (zsh) for loop: apply correct suffix based on Pandoc output format?

Shell (zsh) for loop: apply correct suffix based on Pandoc output format?

[Martin Post]

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I used to do this (in macOS / zsh), as seen in the Pandoc FAQ:

for f in *.md;
do pandoc \
--defaults=defaults.yml \
"$f" \
--output="${f%.md}.htm";
done

But I am now changing output formats in defaults.yml (or additional default 
files), e.g. “to: docx”, and the target files obviously shouldn’t have 
“.htm” then.

How can I modify the for loop so the correct suffix is applied for the 
output format set in a defaults file?

(I realize I could manually add a “output-format-suffix” shell variable and 
use that in the loop, but I hope there’s something more elegant than that.)

Thank you.

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Re: Shell (zsh) for loop: apply correct suffix based on Pandoc output format?

[Bastien DUMONT]

I would search for the output suffix in the YAML file itself:

export SUFFIX="$(grep -x 'to: .*' defaults.yml | cut -d ' ' -f 2)";
for f in *.md;
do pandoc \
--defaults=defaults.yml \
"$f" \
--output="${f%.md}.$SUFFIX";
done

Instead of "to", you can use a dedicated variable in the YAML file if you export to output formats whose name differ from their file suffix (e.g. latex/tex or commonmark/md).

Le Monday 02 October 2023 à 06:58:57AM, Martin Post a écrit :
> I used to do this (in macOS / zsh), as seen in the Pandoc FAQ:
> 
> for f in *.md;
> do pandoc \
> --defaults=defaults.yml \
> "$f" \
> --output="${f%.md}.htm";
> done
> 
> But I am now changing output formats in defaults.yml (or additional default
> files), e.g. “to: docx”, and the target files obviously shouldn’t have “.htm”
> then.
> 
> How can I modify the for loop so the correct suffix is applied for the output
> format set in a defaults file?
> 
> (I realize I could manually add a “output-format-suffix” shell variable and use
> that in the loop, but I hope there’s something more elegant than that.)
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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Re: Shell (zsh) for loop: apply correct suffix based on Pandoc output format?

[Martin Post]

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Thank you, Bastien. This is a good idea, but the Pandoc output format is 
not necessarily the proper generic file suffix. E.g., for to: markdown or 
markdown_strict, one would want/expect “.md”, html5 = .html etc. For 
chunkedhtml, it would actually (have to) be empty, so Pandoc will create a 
folder with HTML files. 

Hmm.

Bastien DUMONT schrieb am Montag, 2. Oktober 2023 um 16:17:28 UTC+2:

> I would search for the output suffix in the YAML file itself:
>
> export SUFFIX="$(grep -x 'to: .*' defaults.yml | cut -d ' ' -f 2)";
> for f in *.md;
> do pandoc \
> --defaults=defaults.yml \
> "$f" \
> --output="${f%.md}.$SUFFIX";
> done
>
> Instead of "to", you can use a dedicated variable in the YAML file if you 
> export to output formats whose name differ from their file suffix (e.g. 
> latex/tex or commonmark/md).
>
> Le Monday 02 October 2023 à 06:58:57AM, Martin Post a écrit :
> > I used to do this (in macOS / zsh), as seen in the Pandoc FAQ:
> > 
> > for f in *.md;
> > do pandoc \
> > --defaults=defaults.yml \
> > "$f" \
> > --output="${f%.md}.htm";
> > done
> > 
> > But I am now changing output formats in defaults.yml (or additional 
> default
> > files), e.g. “to: docx”, and the target files obviously shouldn’t have 
> “.htm”
> > then.
> > 
> > How can I modify the for loop so the correct suffix is applied for the 
> output
> > format set in a defaults file?
> > 
> > (I realize I could manually add a “output-format-suffix” shell variable 
> and use
> > that in the loop, but I hope there’s something more elegant than that.)
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
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Re: Shell (zsh) for loop: apply correct suffix based on Pandoc output format?

[Bastien DUMONT]

That's why I wrote the last sentence!

Le Monday 02 October 2023 à 08:06:48AM, Martin Post a écrit :
> Thank you, Bastien. This is a good idea, but the Pandoc output format is not
> necessarily the proper generic file suffix. E.g., for to: markdown or
> markdown_strict, one would want/expect “.md”, html5 = .html etc. For
> chunkedhtml, it would actually (have to) be empty, so Pandoc will create a
> folder with HTML files. 
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Bastien DUMONT schrieb am Montag, 2. Oktober 2023 um 16:17:28 UTC+2:
> 
>     I would search for the output suffix in the YAML file itself:
> 
>     export SUFFIX="$(grep -x 'to: .*' defaults.yml | cut -d ' ' -f 2)";
>     for f in *.md;
>     do pandoc \
>     --defaults=defaults.yml \
>     "$f" \
>     --output="${f%.md}.$SUFFIX";
>     done
> 
>     Instead of "to", you can use a dedicated variable in the YAML file if you
>     export to output formats whose name differ from their file suffix (e.g.
>     latex/tex or commonmark/md).
> 
>     Le Monday 02 October 2023 à 06:58:57AM, Martin Post a écrit :
>     > I used to do this (in macOS / zsh), as seen in the Pandoc FAQ:
>     >
>     > for f in *.md;
>     > do pandoc \
>     > --defaults=defaults.yml \
>     > "$f" \
>     > --output="${f%.md}.htm";
>     > done
>     >
>     > But I am now changing output formats in defaults.yml (or additional
>     default
>     > files), e.g. “to: docx”, and the target files obviously shouldn’t have
>     “.htm”
>     > then.
>     >
>     > How can I modify the for loop so the correct suffix is applied for the
>     output
>     > format set in a defaults file?
>     >
>     > (I realize I could manually add a “output-format-suffix” shell variable
>     and use
>     > that in the loop, but I hope there’s something more elegant than that.)
>     >
>     > Thank you.
>     >
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