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+# shblg
+
+a static site generator written (entirely) in posix shell
+
+this repository contains two parts: md2html and shblg
+
+## md2html
+
+md2html provides a simple and lightweight way to render a markdown file into html
+
+most standard markdown syntax works
+
+### usage
+
+when using standalone:
+
+    md2html file.md > output.html
+
+when using with shblg, prepend a shebang to your markdown file:
+
+    #!/usr/bin/env md2html
+
+## shblg
+
+shblg is a static site generator that generates a site using a directory full of executable files
+
+shblg recurses through this directory and executes files, sending their stdout to the rendered directory
+
+the intended use is to use various interpreters for input pages to generate an output, for example `md2html` can be added through a shebang to allow the input markdown to be *"executed"* to output html.
+
+shblg will ignore any files that are not executable and instead copy them directly, so ensure that any input files that need to be executed have the `+x` mode
+
+shblg does not make any changes to the source filenames when generating its output, so ensure that you keep file extensions to match the output file's format
+
+### example usage
+
+for example, if you would like to use shblg to generate the site in `example/` and save the output in `html/`
+
+    shblg -i example/ html/
+