Article:		Moving to OpenOffice: Batch Converting Legacy Documents
Subject:		great
Date:		2006-10-24 08:15:10
From:		meatron
Just what I was looking for. I have one problem though, how would I batch convert several documents, the "*" wildcard doesn't seem to work. On linux> openoffice.org-2.0 -invisible "macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsOOO($PWD/*.doc)" *.doc is the problem, specifying the file name converts ok I have a small script preparing a directory structure and moving the files into the appropriate folders. It would help a lot if the conversion was included. Any help is very appreciated, thanks in advance.

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• great
  2006-10-24 08:40:40 Bob DuCharme
  
  I haven't had a chance to try this on a Linux box. Have you tried a backslash before the asterisk? If that doesn't work, I'd try to find an OOo mailing list with Linux users and ask there.
  
  
  • great
    2006-10-24 09:30:18 meatron
    
    Thanks for the quick answer. The backslash doesn't do. I'll post if I find a solution. Once again, really a very useful tool, a month ago I was asking for something like this on OO forums.
    Best regards
    
    
    • great
      2006-10-24 14:19:20 meatron
      
      a simple for loop does the trick

      
      for i in $(find ./ -name ".doc"); do openoffice.org-2.0 -invisible "macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsOOO($PWD/$i)"; done
      
      
      

      • great
        2006-10-24 14:56:29 meatron
        
        ooops forgot the *

        
        so now for real
        for i in $(find ./ -name "*doc"); do openoffice.org-2.0 -invisible "macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsOOO($PWD/$i)"; done