Steve Mynott steve.mynott@gmail.com a écrit :

For years I've used "catdoc" to cat old msword docs.

Is there an equivalent command for docx?

I am not aware of anything ready made but you can handle 90% of them by using unzip to extract content.xml (I think... Or it may be document.xml) and stripping the xml tags and fmt-ing it.

Hope that helps!

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:35:30AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:

MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop a écrit :

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I am not aware of anything ready made but you can handle 90% of them by using unzip to extract content.xml (I think... Or it may be document.xml) and stripping the xml tags and fmt-ing it.

Or I may have been misled by mention of libreoffice and that is for ODF files!

Pretty sure you're right and a docx is a zip file too.

I haven't tried it, but docx2txt (http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/) looks like it might do what the original poster wants?

J.

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 10:46, Steve Mynott steve.mynott@gmail.com wrote:

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 10:43, Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:

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I haven't tried it, but docx2txt (http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net/) looks like it might do what the original poster wants?

I'll try and see if works any better for formatting than

catdocx () { unzip -p "$1" word/document.xml | w3m -B -T text/html | fmt }

docx2txt works very well (better than my shell function) and is exactly what I wanted!

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 12:02, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:

There's more than one docx2txt, I've found a perl one and a python one.

I just installed the one in the Debian repos which is the perl one at http://docx2txt.sourceforge.net

It mentions possible use in data recovery of corrupted files which is useful.