Support printing to stdout

[maxhawkins]

It would be useful to support printing the output to stdout instead of providing a filename.

That way you could pipe the output to another program like:

obsidian-export doc.md | pandoc -f markdown -t html

[AB1908]

It's a "nice to have" for sure, but I can't see the necessity of it especially since we can cat the output. Could you explain a use-case where a pipe is a necessity?

I can't actually fix the issue or anything but I'm curious to see how you use it.

[maxhawkins]

It's a unix philosophy thing, mostly. Writing to stdout makes it easier to chain together programs without intermediate files.

Something like:

obsidian-export doc.md | sed 's/today/9-19-21/' | pandoc -f markdown -t html | ./upload-to-server.sh

It's especially important when you're processing a whole bunch at once (with parallel for instance) and don't want to litter your filesystem with temporary files you need to clean up later.

[AB1908]

Ah, fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.