bone.recipes

Converting between text file types using `pandoc`

# syntax:
pandoc <src> -f <src_format> -t <dest_format> -s -o <dest>

# example: convert epub to plaintext:
pandoc file.epub -f epub -t plain -s -o file.txt

# example: convert html to markdown:
pandoc file.html -f html -t markdown_strict -o file.md

The -s flag means "standalone". From the man pages:

Produce output with an appropriate header and footer (e.g. a standalone HTML, LaTeX, TEI, or RTF file, not a fragment). This option is set automatically for pdf, epub, epub3, fb2, docx, and odt output. For native output, this option causes metadata to be included; otherwise, metadata is suppressed.