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Terminal Tips: HTML via the command line

by C.K. Sample, III Nov 28th 2005 at 7:30AM

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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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Bob Bradley

Nice hint. I was not aware of this utility. I'll check out the other options as well.

November 29 2005 at 11:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom O'Neill

Man page says it was added in 10.4, sorry Mark.

November 28 2005 at 10:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mark

can't get this to work in OS X.3.9 Could also be that i don't have admin rights... stupid I.T. and their stupid locking down of stupid computers :( (can you tell i'm bitter?)

November 28 2005 at 9:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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