A lot of you might have different methods to convert a text document into another format. The simplest method for some of you will be to open the text document in a simple editor such as TextEdit, and then export it as another format. Another method could be to open the file in Microsoft Word and save it as a Rich Text or Plain Text document.
One method that you might not know about is using a command in Terminal to convert files from one format to another. While this method might not suit all of you, it’s a good use of OS X’s command line.
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The command that can be used for this is the
textutil
command, which can be used to convert a document to a specified format.1. Open Terminal on your Mac either by Spotlight or by navigating to “Applications -> Utilities”.
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- Converting texts between formats is a bit of a pain to do on a file-by-file basis, but thankfully, MacIssues shows how to convert text files in bulk using a simple terminal command. The tool you.
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2. Type in the following command into Terminal (don’t press Enter yet):
Here, replace FILEFORMAT with any of the following formats into which you want to convert your file into:
- txt
- html
- rtf
- rtfd
- doc
- docx
- wordml
- odt
- webarchive
3. Press the space bar on your Mac and ensure there’s a space after the file format, and then drag the document you want to convert into the Terminal window:
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Once done, the total command will look something like this, depending on the file name and file location:
Once you execute this command, the new (converted) file will appear in the same folder as the original.
Batch convert text files to other formats
A good use of this command is to batch convert text documents into another format. To do this, instead of dragging a specific file, drag a complete folder to the Terminal window. Then, after the folder path, simply add a forward slash to the end of the folder path (ensure that there is no space between the path and the forward slash) ‘/’, followed by “*.FORMAT”. Replace FORMAT with the original file format, which you’re converting.
For example, in the command below, all .docx files in the folder “Docs” will be converted to .txt files:
The resulting converted files will be located in the same location as the original.
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And for those of you who prefer not to use such commands, a quick way to strip text of all formatting is to paste it into Terminal, and then copy it back to the desired format you want to paste it in.
Conclusion
Using Terminal to quickly batch convert documents is a simple and cost-effective measure, which you can take advantage of without downloading any other third-party applications. While some of you will prefer to use simple text editors such as TextEdit for this, many of you will like this use of Terminal and take full advantage of it. Just remember, don’t mess up the commands, as messing around in Terminal has proved to be disastrous for many in the past.
Be sure to let us know in the comments below which text editor you prefer to convert documents from one format to another. Also, let us know whether the above methods worked for you or not.
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How could I change the color of a specific part of text within a .bat file? I currently have this:
which produces a green '$jp'. The text I type after that, hovewer is green too, I'd like only the '$jp' to be green and the thing I type in to be white eg.
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As noted by dbenham's comment, this is discussed by StackOverflow's how to have multiple colors in a batch file?
Reviewing that question, it is about Windows 7. The answers there are all requiring extra software, or using some batch file techniques which look.. a bit complex.
However, this question doesn't have an operating system tagged, and I'd like to add new information relevant to a newer operating system. Windows 10 has added support for ANSI Escape sequences.
The beauty of ANSI escape sequences is that using them is conceptually easy. You just need to use ANSI color escape sequences (like those documented at Rob van der Woude's page on ANSI Color) and include them in an ECHO statement.
Unfortunately, using these sequences does get to be a little bit harder due to handling of the 27th ASCII character.
Now, the trick to using ANSI Escape sequences is to send the 27th ASCII character to the screen. The reason this is tricky is because the keyboard key that is most commonly related to ASCII 27 is the Esc key. (This is a main reason why these ANSI Escape sequences are often called 'escape' sequences.) And a lot of software has special support for the Esc key. This special support often gets in the way of easily just sending a plain ASCII character number 27.
A lot of times people have worked around this by storing the 27th character in a file, and just copy-and-paste the character as needed. Then, making a file with lots of ANSI sequences involves using the 27th ASCII character a bunch of times, which may be doable using copy-and-paste.
However, there is a better approach. Just get the ASCII character into a file once, and get it into an environment variable. This works well in Windows 10 (and, from what I've read, UNIX terminals). Then you can just refer to that environment variable.
I managed to make a batch file using ssed. The batch file, mentioned some more below, simply sets a variable named ASCII 27 to contain that character.
Furthermore, you can create environment variables. So, instead of something like:
You can use:
That might not look a whole lot shorter. The advantage here isn't necessarily making the file prettier, but so you can use friendlier names (which you decide upon) like
%ANSIBLUEFG%
to use BLUE as the Foreground color, instead of needing to remember which color is related to which number. That may be a lot faster to type out and debug (if you don't have the color numbers memorized).I created a ZIP file containing:
- OUT.ANS: a sample ANSI file to show this off, containing multiple color layouts per line
- ANSICOL.BAT: a batch file that was used to create that ANSI file, demonstrating usage of variable names instead of frequent numeric references to the color numbers,
- ASCII27.BAT: creates the ASCII27 variable containing the escape sequence
This ZIP file is at Windows 10 ANSI demonstration, version 1. The batch file was made to work well with Windows 10. Due to use of “
%^%
” this might not work quite as wonderfully in some older operating systems (but would probably work as expected if replacing “%^%” with “% %”).If you don't feel like messing with environment variables, you could try just copying and pasting the codes straight from the out.ans file (which may work marvelously well, if your text editor doesn't corrupt the ASCII 27 character).
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Try this script. This is a good option for 32bit systems. You can print any text with any color in any screen position:
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