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I know I can easily create a docx file with libreOffice, but I just want to learn more about using bash. Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal? The touch command does a decent job but it does not specify any extension.






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    File extensions don’t really matter in Ubuntu, so if you touch file.docx you have a docx file. :) What makes a docx file a docx file for you?

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    touch command lets you specify the extension; touch foo.docx, but that will create an empty file. Is that what you want? Otherwise, loffice --convert-to docx foo.odt will work in a terminal.

    – waltinator
    yesterday






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    @dessert docx is a file format: Office Open XML

    – wjandrea
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    "Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal?" FYI: odt, docx, xlsx are containers. You can gunzip them and have the human readable version of it. Well human readable ... it is an xml and a large one.

    – Rinzwind
    10 hours ago






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    If your objective is learn bash, this isn't a bash operation. Using 3rd party tools in bash isn't using bash. If you want to learn bash, try to combine 2 or more separate tools into something useful. You don't even need bash to do this.

    – Braiam
    6 hours ago
















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I know I can easily create a docx file with libreOffice, but I just want to learn more about using bash. Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal? The touch command does a decent job but it does not specify any extension.






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    File extensions don’t really matter in Ubuntu, so if you touch file.docx you have a docx file. :) What makes a docx file a docx file for you?

    – dessert
    yesterday






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    touch command lets you specify the extension; touch foo.docx, but that will create an empty file. Is that what you want? Otherwise, loffice --convert-to docx foo.odt will work in a terminal.

    – waltinator
    yesterday






  • 4





    @dessert docx is a file format: Office Open XML

    – wjandrea
    yesterday






  • 3





    "Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal?" FYI: odt, docx, xlsx are containers. You can gunzip them and have the human readable version of it. Well human readable ... it is an xml and a large one.

    – Rinzwind
    10 hours ago






  • 3





    If your objective is learn bash, this isn't a bash operation. Using 3rd party tools in bash isn't using bash. If you want to learn bash, try to combine 2 or more separate tools into something useful. You don't even need bash to do this.

    – Braiam
    6 hours ago














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I know I can easily create a docx file with libreOffice, but I just want to learn more about using bash. Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal? The touch command does a decent job but it does not specify any extension.






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  • 3





    File extensions don’t really matter in Ubuntu, so if you touch file.docx you have a docx file. :) What makes a docx file a docx file for you?

    – dessert
    yesterday






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    touch command lets you specify the extension; touch foo.docx, but that will create an empty file. Is that what you want? Otherwise, loffice --convert-to docx foo.odt will work in a terminal.

    – waltinator
    yesterday






  • 4





    @dessert docx is a file format: Office Open XML

    – wjandrea
    yesterday






  • 3





    "Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal?" FYI: odt, docx, xlsx are containers. You can gunzip them and have the human readable version of it. Well human readable ... it is an xml and a large one.

    – Rinzwind
    10 hours ago






  • 3





    If your objective is learn bash, this isn't a bash operation. Using 3rd party tools in bash isn't using bash. If you want to learn bash, try to combine 2 or more separate tools into something useful. You don't even need bash to do this.

    – Braiam
    6 hours ago














  • 3





    File extensions don’t really matter in Ubuntu, so if you touch file.docx you have a docx file. :) What makes a docx file a docx file for you?

    – dessert
    yesterday






  • 6





    touch command lets you specify the extension; touch foo.docx, but that will create an empty file. Is that what you want? Otherwise, loffice --convert-to docx foo.odt will work in a terminal.

    – waltinator
    yesterday






  • 4





    @dessert docx is a file format: Office Open XML

    – wjandrea
    yesterday






  • 3





    "Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal?" FYI: odt, docx, xlsx are containers. You can gunzip them and have the human readable version of it. Well human readable ... it is an xml and a large one.

    – Rinzwind
    10 hours ago






  • 3





    If your objective is learn bash, this isn't a bash operation. Using 3rd party tools in bash isn't using bash. If you want to learn bash, try to combine 2 or more separate tools into something useful. You don't even need bash to do this.

    – Braiam
    6 hours ago








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File extensions don’t really matter in Ubuntu, so if you touch file.docx you have a docx file. :) What makes a docx file a docx file for you?

– dessert
yesterday





File extensions don’t really matter in Ubuntu, so if you touch file.docx you have a docx file. :) What makes a docx file a docx file for you?

– dessert
yesterday




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touch command lets you specify the extension; touch foo.docx, but that will create an empty file. Is that what you want? Otherwise, loffice --convert-to docx foo.odt will work in a terminal.

– waltinator
yesterday





touch command lets you specify the extension; touch foo.docx, but that will create an empty file. Is that what you want? Otherwise, loffice --convert-to docx foo.odt will work in a terminal.

– waltinator
yesterday




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@dessert docx is a file format: Office Open XML

– wjandrea
yesterday





@dessert docx is a file format: Office Open XML

– wjandrea
yesterday




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3





"Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal?" FYI: odt, docx, xlsx are containers. You can gunzip them and have the human readable version of it. Well human readable ... it is an xml and a large one.

– Rinzwind
10 hours ago





"Anyone able to explain if it is even possible with the terminal?" FYI: odt, docx, xlsx are containers. You can gunzip them and have the human readable version of it. Well human readable ... it is an xml and a large one.

– Rinzwind
10 hours ago




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3





If your objective is learn bash, this isn't a bash operation. Using 3rd party tools in bash isn't using bash. If you want to learn bash, try to combine 2 or more separate tools into something useful. You don't even need bash to do this.

– Braiam
6 hours ago





If your objective is learn bash, this isn't a bash operation. Using 3rd party tools in bash isn't using bash. If you want to learn bash, try to combine 2 or more separate tools into something useful. You don't even need bash to do this.

– Braiam
6 hours ago










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According to this thread over at Unix & Linux, you can use Pandoc.



From skimming the documentation, I think you could use it like:



echo "Hello" | pandoc -o out.docx


Then out.docx will be a docx file with "Hello" in it.




As well, I found this Python module: python-docx






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    +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

    – dessert
    yesterday








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    Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

    – rcjohnson
    5 hours ago



















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LibreOffice comes with a command-line tool called soffice which has libreoffice pointing to it, this tool has a --convert-to option which lets you easily convert files in the same way the GUI program does, e.g.:



libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt


This creates the file file.docx in Office Open XML Text format in the current directory.



Usage example



$ echo some text > file.txt

$ libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt 



convert /home/dessert/file.txt -> /home/dessert/file.docx using filter : Office Open XML Text

$ file file.docx 

file.docx: Microsoft OOXML





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    According to this thread over at Unix & Linux, you can use Pandoc.



    From skimming the documentation, I think you could use it like:



    echo "Hello" | pandoc -o out.docx


    Then out.docx will be a docx file with "Hello" in it.




    As well, I found this Python module: python-docx






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      +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

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      Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

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    According to this thread over at Unix & Linux, you can use Pandoc.



    From skimming the documentation, I think you could use it like:



    echo "Hello" | pandoc -o out.docx


    Then out.docx will be a docx file with "Hello" in it.




    As well, I found this Python module: python-docx






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    • 6





      +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

      – dessert
      yesterday








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      Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

      – rcjohnson
      5 hours ago














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    According to this thread over at Unix & Linux, you can use Pandoc.



    From skimming the documentation, I think you could use it like:



    echo "Hello" | pandoc -o out.docx


    Then out.docx will be a docx file with "Hello" in it.




    As well, I found this Python module: python-docx






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    According to this thread over at Unix & Linux, you can use Pandoc.



    From skimming the documentation, I think you could use it like:



    echo "Hello" | pandoc -o out.docx


    Then out.docx will be a docx file with "Hello" in it.




    As well, I found this Python module: python-docx







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      +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

      – dessert
      yesterday








    • 1





      Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

      – rcjohnson
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    • 6





      +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

      – dessert
      yesterday








    • 1





      Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

      – rcjohnson
      5 hours ago








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    +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

    – dessert
    yesterday







    +1 TIL about Pandoc, which in fact can convert a ton of markup formats into each other.

    – dessert
    yesterday






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    1





    Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

    – rcjohnson
    5 hours ago





    Oh wow! First time one of my answers has been referenced somewhere else :) Came here to say Pandoc

    – rcjohnson
    5 hours ago













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    LibreOffice comes with a command-line tool called soffice which has libreoffice pointing to it, this tool has a --convert-to option which lets you easily convert files in the same way the GUI program does, e.g.:



    libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt


    This creates the file file.docx in Office Open XML Text format in the current directory.



    Usage example



    $ echo some text > file.txt
    
$ libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt 
    

    
convert /home/dessert/file.txt -> /home/dessert/file.docx using filter : Office Open XML Text
    
$ file file.docx 
    
file.docx: Microsoft OOXML





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      LibreOffice comes with a command-line tool called soffice which has libreoffice pointing to it, this tool has a --convert-to option which lets you easily convert files in the same way the GUI program does, e.g.:



      libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt


      This creates the file file.docx in Office Open XML Text format in the current directory.



      Usage example



      $ echo some text > file.txt
      
$ libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt 
      

      
convert /home/dessert/file.txt -> /home/dessert/file.docx using filter : Office Open XML Text
      
$ file file.docx 
      
file.docx: Microsoft OOXML





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        LibreOffice comes with a command-line tool called soffice which has libreoffice pointing to it, this tool has a --convert-to option which lets you easily convert files in the same way the GUI program does, e.g.:



        libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt


        This creates the file file.docx in Office Open XML Text format in the current directory.



        Usage example



        $ echo some text > file.txt
        
$ libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt 
        

        
convert /home/dessert/file.txt -> /home/dessert/file.docx using filter : Office Open XML Text
        
$ file file.docx 
        
file.docx: Microsoft OOXML





        share|improve this answer















        LibreOffice comes with a command-line tool called soffice which has libreoffice pointing to it, this tool has a --convert-to option which lets you easily convert files in the same way the GUI program does, e.g.:



        libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt


        This creates the file file.docx in Office Open XML Text format in the current directory.



        Usage example



        $ echo some text > file.txt
        
$ libreoffice --convert-to docx file.txt 
        

        
convert /home/dessert/file.txt -> /home/dessert/file.docx using filter : Office Open XML Text
        
$ file file.docx 
        
file.docx: Microsoft OOXML






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