[SOLVED] Command line tool to convert Markdown Pipe-Tables to Double-Pipe-Header-Tables

Command line tool to convert Markdown Pipe-Tables to Double-Pipe-Header-Tables

I write my Markdown tables usually in the Pipe-Table syntax (used by Pandoc, multimarkdown, php extra and others). Here an example:

| fruit  | price |
|--------|------:|
| apple  |  2.05 |
| pear   |  1.37 |
| orange |  3.09 |

In a Confluence wiki I can use Markdown (with some crutches), but the tables have to be in a (to me) odd format similar to Markdown:

||fruit||price||
|apple|2.05|
|pear|1.37|
|orange|3.09|

Which command line tool can I use to convert the former into the latter?

PS: I cannot go to HTML instead of the Double-Pipe-Header-Tables because the Confluence instance I am targeting has HTML Marco not enabled.

Solution

Starting with version 2.7.3, pandoc supports Jira wiki markup as input and output format. That format is mostly identical to Confluence markup, so it should work to convert to that with

pandoc --to=jira YOUR-FILE.md