Does what it says on the tin :)

#!/bin/bash
##################################
# by Jason M0MZF (not a programmer!)
# bash / awk / hammer / nail etc.
# License - MIT. Crack on people.
# 
# Script to parse Paula G8PZT's Xrouter MAN and HLP files into DocuWiki
# "some simple markup language" (SSML). DocuWiki ML syntax is here:
# https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:syntax
#
# The intention is to parse all MAN / HLP files within the folders and
# write them with appropriate formatting to files which can then be
# copypasta'd directly into the wiki.
#
# This could also be done with groff > HTML > pandoc > ssml but pandoc's
# output format for SSML doesn't sort out proper ====headers==== and I 
# don't know Lua. Yet.
# 
#
##################################
# Instructions (destructions?)
#
# - This script does not take any arguments
# - The only required configuration is to set the following path
#
BASEPATH=/home/jason/radio/packet/xrouter/Xrouter
#
# This folder should contain the two directories "XRouter Help Files"
# and "XRouter Manual Files". A new directory will be created here
# called "docuwiki-date" and contains two directories for the 
# concatenated and reformatted files. A manually-created
# index page exists in https://wiki.oarc.uk/packet:xrouter:manpages with
# top-level contents, and the pages linked therein have their contents
# copypasta'd from this script's output.
#
##################################
# Changelog
# 20250418 - Implemented MAN page parsing
# 20250419 - Implemented HLP page parsing
# 20250419 - Tidy up, more awk less bash, remove .MAN / .HLP
##################################

# Globals
DATE=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
MANFILES="$BASEPATH/XRouter Manual Files"
HLPFILES="$BASEPATH/XRouter Help Files"
OUTPUTDIR="$BASEPATH/docuwiki-$DATE"

# Colourise output
echoRed () {
	echo -e "\e[1;31m----$1----\e[0m"
}
echoGreen () {
	echo -e "\e[1;32m----$1----\e[0m"
}

checkRoot () {
	if [[ $UID -eq 0 ]]; 
	then
		echoError "This script must NOT be run as root!"
		exit 1
	fi
}

awkParseMan='
{
	if (NR==1 || NR==2)				# For the first two lines
	{
		gsub("\r", "")				# remove all carriage return chars
		if (/^;/ || NF==0) {next}		# skip comment or empty line
		print "<code>" $0			# and start a ssml code block
	}

	if (NR>=3)					# For the other lines
	{
		if (/^[A-Z]/) 				# If the line begins with a character
		{
			endcode="</code> **"		# end previous code block
			startcode="** <code>"		# set bold and start code block
			gsub("\r", "")			# remove all carriage return chars
			print endcode $0 startcode 	# and output the line
		}
		else 					# else for all other lines
		{
			if (/^;/) {next}		# skip comment lines
			gsub("\r", "")			# remove all carriage return chars
			print $0			# and output the line
		}
	}
}
'

awkParseHlp='
{
	header1="<code>"
	gsub("\r", "")					# remove all carriage return chars
	if (NR==1) {print header1}			# start code block on first line
	if (/^;/ || NF==0) {next}			# skip comment / empty lines
	print $0
}
'

awkSectionHeader='
	BEGIN { FS="/" }				#Set field separator
{
		header="======="			# create header formatting
		print header $(NF-1) header		# we need the penultimate field as that
}							# is the folder name /it/looks/like/this/
'

awkFileHeader='
	BEGIN { FS="." }				# Set field separator
{							# to separate out the .MAN .HLP
	header="====="					# create header formatting
	print header $1 header				# output first field with headers
}
'

parseFiles () {
	mkdir -p "${OUTPUTDIR}/$1"
	# Traverse folders, skipping files in base directory
	for folder in "${!1}"/*/
	do
		# Get the penultimate field in file path, i.e. the section (folder) name
		section=$(echo $folder | awk  -F/ '{print $(NF-1)}')
		# Prepend the section name as a docuWiki header
		echo "$folder" | awk "$awkSectionHeader" >> "${OUTPUTDIR}"/"$1"/"${section}".docuwiki
		# Spit some stuff out to the shell
		echoRed "$section"
		# Traverse through files
		for file in "$folder"*
		do
			# Get the last field in file path, i.e. file name
			title=$(echo $file | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')
			# Prepend the file name as a docuwiki header
			echo "$title" | awk "$awkFileHeader" >> "${OUTPUTDIR}"/"$1"/"${section}".docuwiki
			case "$1" in
			# For MAN files, after awk has done it's job we need to remove the last line; this last line breaks
			# the following <code> statement and is just an EOF message, so we don't lose anything.
			MANFILES)	awk "$awkParseMan" "$file" | head -n -1 >> "${OUTPUTDIR}"/"$1"/"${section}".docuwiki
						echo -e "</code>\n----" >> "${OUTPUTDIR}"/"$1"/"${section}".docuwiki
			;;
			# For HLP files we don't want to remove the last line because that truly is real content
			HLPFILES)	awk "$awkParseHlp" "$file" >> "${OUTPUTDIR}"/"$1"/"${section}".docuwiki
						echo -e "</code>" >> "${OUTPUTDIR}"/"$1"/"${section}".docuwiki
			;;
			esac
		done
	done
}

#Let's go!
checkRoot
echoGreen "Parsing MAN files from $MANFILES"
parseFiles MANFILES
echoGreen "Parsing HLP files from $HLPFILES"
parseFiles HLPFILES