website - Bash file redirection instead of string interpretation in Pandoc makefile -

introduction

i started using pandoc markdown generate static xhtml personal website. managed automatically insert couple of links refer $(name) of .md file using pandoc -b argument (see below makefile). pandoc -b argument designed contain file name, had use output redirection of echo command in addition shell interpretation.

the problem

the pandoc -b argument has grown long maintained within makefile. want move xhtml string separate file whilst keeping bash string interpretation. cat command not because not part of bash.

shell := /bin/bash name  = $(basename $(wildcard *.md))  all: index.html html: index.html  index.html: $(name).md pandoc $< -s -o $@ \ -b <(echo "<div id=\"pdf\"><ul><li><a href=\"$(name).a4.pdf\">a4 pdf</a></li><li><a href=\"$(name).letter.pdf\">letter pdf</a></li></ul></div><div id=\"source\"><ul><li><a href=\"../$(name).bib\">bibtex references</a></li><li><a href=\"$(name).md\">pandoc markdown</a></li><li><a href=\"makefile\">makefile</a></li></ul></div>") 

how bout using sed template? example, file , word templates {__name__}:

<div id="pdf"><ul><li><a href="{__name__}.a4.pdf">a4 pdf</a></li><li><a href="{__name__}.letter.pdf">letter pdf</a></li></ul></div><div id="source"><ul><li><a href="../{__name__}.bib">bibtex references</a></li><li><a href="{__name__}.md">pandoc markdown</a></li><li><a href="makefile">makefile</a></li></ul></div> 

you use sed replace them:

pandoc $< -s -o $@ \ -b <(sed -e "s|{__name__}|$(name)|g" file.txt)