[CLUE-Tech] starting openoffice from the command line

[Keith Christian]

I have a shell script called "oo.sh" that works fine.  "soffice" is the
executable.


#!/bin/bash
# Run Open Office against a desired file
# Finalized Wed Dec  3 11:34:35 MST 2003 Keith Christian
#
EXTENSIONS="sxw sxc sxd sci sxm sxg"
THEFILE=$1
 
if [ -z ${THEFILE} ]; then
        TEMPFILE=$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S').sxw
        touch ${TEMPFILE}
        echo "  Using ${TEMPFILE} as a new blank OO word processing document"
        ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice "${TEMPFILE}" &
elif [ -d ${THEFILE} ]; then
        echo "  ${THEFILE} is a directory, please use a filename instead."
else
        echo ${THEFILE} | grep -q "/"
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                OOFILE="${THEFILE}"
        else
                OOFILE="$(pwd)/${THEFILE}"
        fi
        ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/soffice "$OOFILE" &
fi
#End of oo.sh script

Set up an alias or shell function, or rename it to "oo" and have fun.

=====Keith


--- Jay Seven Ess <j7s12b at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 06:46, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> > How does one launch an openoffice application, such as the
> > spreadsheet from the command line?
> >
> > I tried the instructions listed in
> > http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/support/applications/openoffice/
> > and pages similar to it, but that causes an installation
> > program to start.  I know it's already installed, I can
> > launch it from the Fedora Core toolbar.
> 
> I started Oo Calc from the menu and then on the command line did..
>    $ ps -aux | grep office
> 
> which returned "/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
> private:factory/scalc"
> 
> issuing that line on the command line started the Calc spreadsheet program
> for me. 
> 
> J
> 
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