Markdown.pl - Man Page

This program is distributed as part of Perl's Text::Markdown module, illustrating sample usage.

Markdown can be invoked on any file containing Markdown-syntax, and will produce the corresponding (X)HTML on STDOUT:

    $ cat file.txt
    This is a *test*.

    Absolutely _nothing_ to see here. _Just a **test**_!

    * test
    * Yup, test.
    $ Markdown.pl file.txt
    <p>This is a <em>test</em>.</p>

    <p>Absolutely <em>nothing</em> to see here. <em>Just a <strong>test</strong></em>!</p>

    <ul>
    <li>test</li>
    <li>Yup, test.</li>
    </ul>

If no file is specified, it will expect its input from STDIN:

    $ echo "A **simple** test" | markdown
    <p>A <strong>simple</strong> test</p>

version

Shows the full information for this version

shortversion

Shows only the version number

html4tags

Produce HTML 4-style tags instead of XHTML - XHTML requires elements that do not wrap a block (i.e. the hr tag) to state they will not be closed, by closing with />. HTML 4-style will plainly output the tag as it comes:

    $ echo '---' | markdown
    <hr />
    $ echo '---' | markdown --html4tags
    <hr>

help

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Copyright 2004 John Gruber

Copyright 2008 Tomas Doran

The manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> for its use in Debian systems, but can be freely used elsewhere.

For full licensing information, please refer to Text::Markdown.pm's full documentation.

Text::Markdown, <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>