A Shell script to automatically generate a Table of Contents from Markdown files.


Keywords
markdown, table, contents, shell, toc, table of contents, headers, generator, npm-package, shell-script, table-of-contents
License
MIT
Install
npm install make-toc@1.2.1

Documentation

make-toc.sh

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A Shell script to automatically generate a Table of Contents from Markdown files.

Contents

Installation

NPM

npm install -g make-toc

Manually

  1. Clone the repo or download as a ZIP and extract it.
  2. Add the markdown file you want to generate a ToC for to the project's folder.

Usage

NPM

make-toc ...opts source-file.md output-file.md

Manually

. ./make-toc.sh ...opts source-file.md output-file.md

Documentation

  • source-file.md - The markdown file a ToC should be generated for.
  • output-file.md - A filename to label the script's output, e.g. toc.md.

...opts

This section outlines flags for the script which may be used individually or in combination.

-s <n> or --skip <n>

Skips n headers from the top of the file.

For example, to omit the file's title header use:

make-toc -s 1 source.md target.md


-d <n> or --depth <n>

Sets the maximum depth for the table.

For example, to generate a fairly shallow table of the top-level and second-level headers only, use:

make-toc -d 2 source.md target.md

Passing -d 0 to the script will result in default behaviour, i.e. full depth.