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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2017-08-16 10:39:34 -0700
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2017-08-16 10:39:34 -0700
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treee88d25357a54942c2e4942c021ee266f6bed3fa2 /MANUAL.txt
parentcf4b40162d10b17cc7e8fade36c6d2ca9903d9dd (diff)
Revision to binary format output to stdout:
We now allow default output to stdout when it can be determined that the output is being piped. (On Windows, as mentioned before, this can't be determined.) Using '-o -' forces output to stdout regardless.
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@@ -109,9 +109,10 @@ Using `pandoc`
If no *input-file* is specified, input is read from *stdin*.
Otherwise, the *input-files* are concatenated (with a blank
line between each) and used as input. Output goes to *stdout* by
-default (though output to *stdout* is disabled for the `odt`, `docx`,
-`epub2`, and `epub3` output formats, unless it is forced using
-`-o -`). For output to a file, use the `-o` option:
+default (though output to the terminal is disabled for the
+`odt`, `docx`, `epub2`, and `epub3` output formats, unless it is
+forced using `-o -`). For output to a file, use the `-o`
+option:
pandoc -o output.html input.txt