[SOLVED] How to convert html to odt or doc using linux command line?

zoghbi · 12-25-2011, 01:15 AM

hi everybody
I need to convert a lot of html files to text formats (odt,doc ...) using command line because i need to use shell script to convert all my files in one time.

thanks in advance

David the H. · 12-25-2011, 06:19 AM

openoffice/libreoffice include batch-conversion ability.

Code:

libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt *.html

I don't know how well it handles the conversion though.

There are more options for converting to regular text. html2text, for example. Search your distro's repositories.

Satyaveer Arya · 12-25-2011, 02:16 PM

Hey zoghbi,

To convert to odt it's pretty easy after installing pandoc.

Quote:

#pandoc -o output.html input.txt

Or you can like:

Quote:

#abiword --to=doc filename.odt

zoghbi · 12-25-2011, 03:26 PM

thanks very much David the H, and Satyaveer Arya
the two method works well,
pandoc convert with a best quality directly to .doc or .docx

Satyaveer Arya · 12-25-2011, 03:34 PM

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zoghbi · 12-26-2011, 03:49 AM

of course Satyaveer Arya, thanks million times,