Terminal Tips: HTML via the command line

By C.K. Sample, III

Robert Daeley over at MacDevCenter has an article up detailing HTML Tools on the Mac Command Line, which would seem to be a pretty good starting place for those of you who code HTML on a regular basis and would like to unleash some of the power of the UNIX-based underbelly of OS X and the Terminal.

I like the textutil command that can take any .txt file and automagically turn it into a properly coded webpage:


textutil -convert html foo.txt
 
This produces a file called foo.html in the same directory without mangling the original text file. Neat. 

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