From d3eb21e7bf9a78e0fff7f16777253c6144cd6c66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dylan R. E. Moonfire" <d.moonfire@mfgames.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:17:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(content): added a new command to extract content from a
 file

---
 README.md            |  8 ++++++++
 src/tools/content.ts | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/tools/content.ts

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c8a40c1..e5f6861 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,14 @@ markdown verb *.markdown
 markdowny version
 ```
 
+### content
+
+> Extract the content from one or more files.
+
+```sh
+markdowny content *.markdown
+```
+
 ### count
 
 > Counts the number of words excluding the YAML header and displays it.
diff --git a/src/tools/content.ts b/src/tools/content.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6393949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tools/content.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import * as _ from "lodash";
+import * as fs from "fs";
+import * as scanner from "../scanner";
+import * as yargs from "yargs";
+
+export var command = "content";
+export var describe = "Extracts the content of the file without metadata";
+
+export function builder(yargs: yargs.Arguments)
+{
+    return yargs
+        .help("help")
+
+        .option(
+            "output",
+            {
+                alias: "o",
+                default: "-",
+                describe: "Write output to a file or `-` for standard out",
+            }
+        )
+
+        .demand(1);
+}
+
+export function handler(argv: any)
+{
+    // Parse through the files and retrieve the metadata.
+    var files = argv._.splice(1);
+    var data: any = scanner.scanFiles(argv, files);
+    var output = data.map(x => x.__content).join("\n");
+
+    // Figure out where to write.
+    if (argv.output === "-")
+    {
+        console.log(output);
+    } else {
+        fs.writeFileSync(argv.output, Buffer.from(output, "utf-8"));
+    }
+}