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 # XXX output encoding (UTF-8) hardcoded
  10 case "$1" in
  11         *.doc | *.DOC | *.dot | *.DOT)
  12                 antiword -m UTF-8 "$1" || cat "$1"
  13                 ;;
  14         *.pdf | *.PDF)
  15                 pdftotext -layout "$1" -enc UTF-8 -
  16                 ;;
  17         # TODO add rtf support
  18         *.rtf | *.RTF)
  19                 cat "$1"
  20                 ;;
  21         *)
  22                 echo "E: unsupported filetype $1" 1>&2
  23                 exit 1
  24                 ;;
  25 esac
  26
  27 exit 0