Extract blockquotes as pull quotes

Goal: Pull every blockquote out of an article as plain text, handy for picking pull quotes to share on social media, or for a “quotes from this post” summary.

Prerequisites: None.

Query

.blockquote | to_text

$ mq '.blockquote | to_text' post.md

Input

# Article

Some intro text.

> This is a great pull quote worth sharing.

More text here.

> Another quote.
> Spanning two lines.

Output

This is a great pull quote worth sharing.
Another quote.
Spanning two lines.

Notes

• Drop | to_text to keep the > Markdown syntax instead of plain text.
• A blockquote spanning multiple lines (like the second one above) comes out as one multi-line result, not split into separate quotes. Group by blank lines in the source if you need them separated.
• Gotcha: a nested blockquote (> > text) gets its text glued to the outer quote’s with no space or newline between them, e.g. Outer quote.Nested quote.. Check for >>-style input before relying on this for anything more than flat blockquotes.