Simple PowerShell (for now) script to convert Microsoft Word files into markdown with pandoc

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For Linux users:

place a script with the following content in the folder with the files you’d like to convert:

find -name "*.docx" -type f -exec sh -c '
      for f; do
         pandoc -f docx -t markdown -o "${f%.*}.md" "$f"
      done
   ' find-sh {} +

Then execute the script via terminal like this: ./name-of-script

If you want to remove the original file, add the following line

rm "$f"
before the “done” command

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