bin/astextplain

   1 #!/bin/sh -e
   2 # minimalistic replacement for `run-mailcap --action=cat <file>`
   3
   4 if test "$#" != 1 ; then
   5         echo "Usage: astextplain <file>" 1>&2
   6         exit 1
   7 fi
   8
   9 # small files are never .doc or .pdf -- they are unsupported-on-win32 symlinks
  10 # which git just stores as regular files with symlink content
  11 if test $(du -b "$1" | awk '{print $1}') -lt 256 ; then
  12         cat "$1"
  13         exit 0
  14 fi
  15
  16
  17 # XXX output encoding (UTF-8) hardcoded
  18 case "$1" in
  19         *.doc | *.DOC | *.dot | *.DOT)
  20                 antiword -m UTF-8 "$1" || cat "$1"
  21                 ;;
  22         *.docx | *.DOCX)
  23                 docx2txt "$1" -
  24                 ;;
  25         *.pdf | *.PDF)
  26                 pdftotext -layout "$1" -enc UTF-8 -
  27                 ;;
  28         # TODO add rtf support
  29         *.rtf | *.RTF)
  30                 cat "$1"
  31                 ;;
  32         *)
  33                 echo "E: unsupported filetype $1" 1>&2
  34                 exit 1
  35                 ;;
  36 esac
  37
  38 exit 0