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soffice — CLI for the powerful and free LibreOffice suite. More information: <https://help.libreoffice.org/lat

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Problem

How to use the soffice command: CLI for the powerful and free LibreOffice suite. More information: <https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/pdf_params.html>.

Solution

soffice — CLI for the powerful and free LibreOffice suite. More information: <https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/pdf_params.html>.

Open one or more files in read-only mode:

soffice --view {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Display the content of one or more files:

soffice --cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Print files using a specific printer:

soffice --pt {{printer_name}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Convert all .doc files in the current directory to PDF:

soffice --convert-to pdf *.doc

Code Snippets

Open one or more files in read-only mode

soffice --view {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Display the content of one or more files

soffice --cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Print files using a specific printer

soffice --pt {{printer_name}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Convert all `.doc` files in the current directory to PDF

soffice --convert-to pdf *.doc

Context

tldr-pages: common/soffice

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