mdcat - Markdown-friendly variant of cat

Ever struggling quickly documenting your server configuration files in a Git repo or sharing them with your colleagues for the future reference? Welcome to mdcat.

It is a simple Python 3 command line utility, ingesting file path(s) arguments, and printing their content in Markdown-friendly format.

Moreover, it prints the file's absolute path, mode (permissions), and owner (user + group).

Requirements

• Python3 + PIP

Installation

Install/upgrade the tool from PyPI using:

$ pip3 install --upgrade mdcat

Usage

$ mdcat --help
Usage: mdcat [OPTIONS] [FILES]...

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Example:

$ echo foo >> bar
$ mdcat bar

Output:

File: `/home/pavel/mdcat/bar` (`0644 pavel:users`):

    foo

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• Pavel Hübner - Initial work

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.