osx snow leopard - Batch processing pandoc conversions

Question

I've searched high and low to try and work out how to batch process pandoc.

How do I convert a folder and nested folders containing html files to markdown?

I'm using os x 10.6.8

Answer 1

You can apply any command across the files in a directory tree using find:

find . -name *.md -type f -exec pandoc -o {}.txt {} ;

would run pandoc on all files with a .md suffix, creating a file with a .md.txt suffix. (You will need a wrapper script if you want to get a .txt suffix without the .md, or do ugly things with subshell invocations.) {} in any word from -exec to the terminating ; will be replaced by the filename.