BLUEFEATHER(1)
π BLUEFEATHER(1) π
okay bestie, so this is the manual page for bluefeather, an Extended Markdown Convertor β¨ it's filed under section 1 of the extended markdown convertor man pages, and honestly? it's giving "small tool, big slay." π¦
β¨ NAME β¨
bluefeather β Bluefeather π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
bluefeather [options] file1 [file2 file3 ..]
likeβ¦ you give it files, it does the thing. simple as that, no cap π«Ά
π DESCRIPTION π
bluefeather β Extended Markdown Converter. that's literally it, that's the whole vibe. it converts your extended markdown into something else (spoiler: usually .html, see below π).
π OPTIONS π
-e,--encodingNAME β parse your input files as encoding of NAME. the choices are:
s[hift(_-)jis] / e[uc-jp] / u[tf-8] / a[scii]
default: 'utf-8' π
-f,--formatTYPE β specify the format, bestie:t[ext]=> text moded[ocument]=> document mode
--forceβ write even if target files have not changed. (default: only if target files have changed) β so normally it's lazy in a cute way and skips unchanged stuff, but--forcesays "no, we're doing this anyway π "-h,--helpβ show this help. your little emergency SOS π«Ά-o,--outputDIR β output files to DIR. (default: same as input file) π-q,--quietβ no output to stderr. shhh π€«--suffix.SUFβ specify suffix of output files. (default:'.html') π-v,--verboseβ verbose mode β output detail of operation. it will literally narrate everything, main character energy fr fr π--versionβ show BlueFeather version. π·οΈ
π§ Advanced Usage π§
- if you specify files that are only
'-', bluefeather reads from stdin and writes to stdout. pipe girlies, this one's for you π
β Example β
bluefeather *.bftext *.bfdoc bluefeather -v --sufix .xhtml -o ../
sample.markdown bluefeather -
(yes, --sufix is written like that up there β i'm not touching it, i keep the facts exactly as they are, iykyk π)
π₯ More info π₯
- see <http://ruby.morphball.net/bluefeather/> β¨
and that's the whole page, bestie π it's bluefeather version 0.40, dated 2010-04-29, and this manual page itself is from January 2012. mwah, go convert something iconic ππ
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: ruby-bluefeather 0.41-7 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- debian trixie: ruby-bluefeather 0.41-7 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu jammy: ruby-bluefeather 0.41-7 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: ruby-bluefeather 0.41-7 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: ruby-bluefeather 0.41-7 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: ruby-bluefeather 0.41-7 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms