pages_to_odt

BASH script to convert (XML-based) Apple .pages files to .odt (OpenDocument) files.

Disclaimer

I wrote this with the help of OpenAI's ChatGPT, but I plan to make certain adjustments to it myself and am willing to accept pull requests from others to make the script even more human-generated.

Dependencies

• find
• libreoffice (specifically command-line tools)
• zip

Usage

This script searches a directory (and sub-directories if -R flag is added) for any Apple Pages documents (ending in .pages). If the .pages document is a ZIP file (most are), the script then passes it to libreoffice for conversion. If the .pages document is a directory, the contents of the directory are first zipped and then sent to libreoffice for conversion. The converted files should be automatically moved to the directory of the original file.