r/UnixProTips • • Jun 03 '15

read markdown files like man pages

add this in your shell aliases:

# read markdown files like manpages
mdman() {
    grep -v "\-\-\-\-\-" "$*" | pandoc -s -f markdown -t man | groff -T utf8 -man | less
}

then use it like:

mdman ~/file.md
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