Re: [dev] reading an epub book with less: adventures in text processing

From: Greg Reagle <list_AT_speedpost.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:18:05 -0400

On Sat, Mar 9, 2024, at 1:15 PM, Greg Minshall wrote:
> for some personal tastes/usage cases, this, using pandoc's `-t`
> option, might be minor-ly simpler:
> ----
> man --local-file --pager 'less -ir' \
> <(pandoc --standalone -t man \
> 2015.31233.Arab-Geographers-Knowledge-Of-Southern-India.epub) | less
> ----

Very cool command. Good idea to use process substitution. Here is another way of doing it:
    pandoc --standalone -t man City_of_Truth-Morrow.epub | man /dev/stdin
but I don't know how portable /dev/stdin is.
Received on Mon Mar 11 2024 - 16:18:05 CET