3.1 General options

-f FORMAT, -r FORMAT, --from=FORMAT, --read=FORMAT

Specify input format. FORMAT can be:

Extensions can be individually enabled or disabled by appending +EXTENSION or -EXTENSION to the format name. See Extensions below, for a list of extensions and their names. See --list-input-formats and --list-extensions, below.

-t FORMAT, -w FORMAT, --to=FORMAT, --write=FORMAT

Specify output format. FORMAT can be:

Note that odt, docx, epub, and pdf output will not be directed to stdout unless forced with -o -.

Extensions can be individually enabled or disabled by appending +EXTENSION or -EXTENSION to the format name. See Extensions below, for a list of extensions and their names. See --list-output-formats and --list-extensions, below.

-o FILE, --output=FILE

Write output to FILE instead of stdout. If FILE is -, output will go to stdout, even if a non-textual format (docx, odt, epub2, epub3) is specified. If the output format is chunkedhtml and FILE has no extension, then instead of producing a .zip file pandoc will create a directory FILE and unpack the zip archive there (unless FILE already exists, in which case an error will be raised).

--data-dir=DIRECTORY

Specify the user data directory to search for pandoc data files. If this option is not specified, the default user data directory will be used. On *nix and macOS systems this will be the pandoc subdirectory of the XDG data directory (by default, $HOME/.local/share, overridable by setting the XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable). If that directory does not exist and $HOME/.pandoc exists, it will be used (for backwards compatibility). On Windows the default user data directory is %APPDATA%\pandoc. You can find the default user data directory on your system by looking at the output of pandoc --version. Data files placed in this directory (for example, reference.odt, reference.docx, epub.css, templates) will override pandoc’s normal defaults. (Note that the user data directory is not created by pandoc, so you will need to create it yourself if you want to make use of it.)

-d FILE, --defaults=FILE

Specify a set of default option settings. FILE is a YAML file whose fields correspond to command-line option settings. All options for document conversion, including input and output files, can be set using a defaults file. The file will be searched for first in the working directory, and then in the defaults subdirectory of the user data directory (see --data-dir). The .yaml extension may be omitted. See the section Defaults files for more information on the file format. Settings from the defaults file may be overridden or extended by subsequent options on the command line.

--bash-completion

Generate a bash completion script. To enable bash completion with pandoc, add this to your .bashrc:

eval "$(pandoc --bash-completion)"
--verbose

Give verbose debugging output.

--quiet

Suppress warning messages.

--fail-if-warnings[=true|false]

Exit with error status if there are any warnings.

--log=FILE

Write log messages in machine-readable JSON format to FILE. All messages above DEBUG level will be written, regardless of verbosity settings (--verbose, --quiet).

--list-input-formats

List supported input formats, one per line.

--list-output-formats

List supported output formats, one per line.

--list-extensions[=FORMAT]

List supported extensions for FORMAT, one per line, preceded by a + or - indicating whether it is enabled by default in FORMAT. If FORMAT is not specified, defaults for pandoc’s Markdown are given.

--list-highlight-languages

List supported languages for syntax highlighting, one per line.

--list-highlight-styles

List supported styles for syntax highlighting, one per line. See --highlight-style.

-v, --version

Print version.

-h, --help

Show usage message.