REDCARPET(1)

💖 redcarpet(1) — User Commands 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about redcarpet, the manual page for the tool whose whole vibe is literally "Markdown prosessing like butterflies and popcorn". 🦋🍿 no cap, that's the name section's own words and I am obsessed.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

redcarpet [--parse-<extension>...] [--render-<extension>...] [--smarty]
          [<file>...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: redcarpet takes one or more Markdown files, converts them to HTML, and writes the whole thing straight to standard output. that's it, that's the job. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

if you hand it no <file> at all, or if your <file> is literally just '-', it will read the Markdown source text from standard input instead. yes bestie, it's flexible like that. 💅

now for the fun part: when you give it some <extension>s, it performs additional Markdown processing before writing out your output. extra steps, extra slay. ✨

and when you pass --smarty, it uses the SmartyHTML renderer. periodt. 🎀

ngl, this page is short but it said what it said, and I respect it fr fr. 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Youhei SASAKI <uwabami@gfd-dennou.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to them, absolute legend behavior for documenting this. 🙈💖

redcarpet 3.0.0 · May 2012 · that's the version and the date, bestie, and that's the whole page. bye, go parse some Markdown, mwah 💋🌈⭐