Simple Markdown to PDF Command

markdownToPdf.sh

#!/bin/bash

# I actually just added this as a function in my .bashrc, but you
# could just "chmod +x" this script and drop it in a bin folder in
# a local $PATH directory such as "/usr/local/bin"

# Requires pandoc be installed. https://pandoc.org/
# Might also require latex to be installed, but I'm not sure about that one.

mdBase=`basename -s ".md" "${1}"`
pandoc "${1}" -f markdown -s -t latex -o "${mdBase}.pdf"