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Command Line

This functionality has been deprecated in version 1.4 and will be removed in 2.0.

Markdown can be converted at the command line using the ./bin/commonmark script.

Usage

./bin/commonmark [OPTIONS] [FILE]

• -h, --help: Shows help and usage information
• --enable-em: Disable <em> parsing by setting to 0; enable with 1 (default: 1)
• --enable-strong: Disable <strong> parsing by setting to 0; enable with 1 (default: 1)
• --use-asterisk: Disable parsing of * for emphasis by setting to 0; enable with 1 (default: 1)
• --use-underscore: Disable parsing of _ for emphasis by setting to 0; enable with 1 (default: 1)

If no file is given, input will be read from STDIN.

Output will be written to STDOUT.

Examples

Converting a file named document.md

./bin/commonmark document.md

Converting a file and saving its output

./bin/commonmark document.md > output.html

Converting from STDIN

echo -e '# Hello World!' | ./bin/commonmark

Converting from STDIN and saving the output

echo -e '# Hello World!' | ./bin/commonmark > output.html

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