Render Markdown in the Terminal

22 December 2023

[markdown]
[terminal]

Here's a tool to render markdown in the terminal.

Install

The tool is called glow. Get it!

To install in Ubuntu derivatives:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://repo.charm.sh/apt/gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/charm.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/charm.gpg] https://repo.charm.sh/apt/ * *" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/charm.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install glow

For other install instructions, see the README.

Render Markdown

Run it:

glow myMarkdown.md

Or run it with a pager, so you can scroll up and down:

glow -p myMarkdown.md

Any other great markdown tools for the terminal that you use?