Re: [libreoffice-users] Using LibreOffice on the command line to batch convert .htm files to .html files

At 10:51 11/04/2014 -0500, Joe Bonly wrote:
> I finally got the batch file to work.
>
> My final code is:
>
> for %%f in (*.htm) do (
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe" --headless
> --convert-to html:"HTML" --outdir
> "C:\Users\Joe\Clare\MCSLT\OutputHtmlFiles" %%f
> )
>
> In my batch file above, I had to use the absolute path of 
> soffice.exe to get the batch file to work.  I tried putting 
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe" in my 
> %path% environment variable, so that I could simply call soffice.exe 
> in the batch file, but this caused Firefox to crash on 
> startup!  What a bizarre problem.

It's no so bizarre: the PATH environment variable takes paths, not 
file names.  If you'd put
C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program
there - without the file name "soffice.exe" - it would have 
worked.  When it finds just "soffice.exe" in your batch file, the 
system will search the appropriate directory (amongst others) to find it.

> I have successfully modified the %path% variable before, by adding 
> "C:\Python34" and had no problems.

Exactly: a path, not a file name.

> Anyway...maybe someone is interested in this apparent conflict 
> between soffice.exe in %path% and Firefox?

Putting a file name there instead of a path is likely to cause confusion ...

> The important thing is, the batch script works ...

Good-oh!  What you did was a perfectly acceptable alternative, of course.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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