termbook is a minimal clone of the mdbook command-line tool, and will only be required to build the final version of your book as it adds the needed mdbook preprocessor.

Installation

Via HomeBrew (OSX and Linux)

This is by far the most straight-forward way of installing termbook. Just execute the following code.

brew tap byron/termbook https://github.com/byron/termbook.git
brew install termbook

Via Github-Releases

At the github releases page you will find precompiled binaries for all common platforms.

Just decompress the respective archive and copy the termbook binary into your $PATH, usually this will be /usr/local/bin.

Windows is notably absent, but could be provided if there is demand.

Via Cargo

termbook can be installed via cargo only, which in turn can be obtained via rustup.

Then it's as easy as

cargo install termbook-cli

After the installation...

Now you should be able to run termbook:

termbook --help

termbook 1.4.6
Sebastian Thiel <byronimo@gmail.com>
`termbook` is a command-line tool to build `mdbook`'s while executing `bash` codeblocks and collecting their output to
become part of the `mdbook`.
              

USAGE:
    termbook [SUBCOMMAND]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    build          Build the `mdbook` compatible book in the current working directory or in the given location.
    completions    generate completions for supported shell
    help           Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    play           Playback documentation by emulating a fast human typist.

Also have a look at the online documentation at https://byron.github.io/termbook