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I have a bunch of text files that I created with mousepad in xfce. I didn't really think I would need to share them, but I guess I have to. Is there anyway I can batch convert these to rtf so they could be viewed on a windows client?
I have a bunch of text files that I created with mousepad in xfce. I didn't really think I would need to share them, but I guess I have to. Is there anyway I can batch convert these to rtf so they could be viewed on a windows client?
Actually, I didn't realize it but abiword will do this via the command line!! All I did was change to the directory my files were in and:
Code:
abiword to=rtf *
Brilliantly, everything was converted to rtf. No line encoding to mess with! Some files were in .doc, some linux text, and some already rtf. Now, everything is uniformly rtf!!! Briliant! It will convert to many formats, and will convert anything abiword can read. Thank you briliant developers!!! The whole thing took less than 2 minutes to convert 70 good sized files.
Last edited by Super TWiT; 08-27-2010 at 09:46 AM.
Actually, I didn't realize it but abiword will do this via the command line!! All I did was change to the directory my files were in and:
Code:
abiword to=rtf *
Brilliantly, everything was converted to rtf. No line encoding to mess with! Some files were in .doc, some linux text, and some already rtf. Now, everything is uniformly rtf!!! Briliant! It will convert to many formats, and will convert anything abiword can read. Thank you briliant developers!!! The whole thing took less than 2 minutes to convert 70 good sized files.
That's something worth knowing...thanks for sharing the solution. Wasn't aware that abiword could do that.
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