pandoc: theme=simple: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

[beerendlauwers]

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• Command line used: pandoc -t revealjs -s -o -V theme=simple index.html index.md
• Input: a .md file with some content in it that will get turned into a RevealJS presentation.
• Received output: an error message: pandoc: theme=simple: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
• Expected output: a generated index.html sitting alongside index.md.

[mb21]

It should be:

pandoc -t revealjs -s -V theme=simple -o index.html index.md

the -o must be followed by an output file.

[beerendlauwers]

Whoops. This is why we could really use a statically typed shell environment ;)