[KLUG Members] doc 2 txt

[Adam bultman]

Antiword can let you do that.


"for x in `ls *.doc`; do antiword $x > $x.txt; done"

Will give you document.doc.txt, etc.   It is really all you need.

Adam


Ron Sweeney wrote:

> yeah, im looking to iterate over a repository on a filesystem in batch
> mode.
>
> On 11/11/05, *Mark* <imagineer66 at comcast.net
> <mailto:imagineer66 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     If by .doc you mean Microsoft Word, then either Word or OpenOffice
>     will
>     save it to a text file.  I don't know of a batch converter.
>
>
>     ---------------
>     Anybody got any ideas on a cool binary or script that will convert a
>     .doc to txt...
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