Convert Word doc or docx files into text files?

Question

I need a way to convert .doc or .docx extensions to .txt without installing anything. I also don\'t want to have to manually open Wor

Answer 1

I need a way to convert .doc or .docx extensions to .txt without installing anything

for I in *.doc?; do mv $I `echo $ | sed 's/\.docx?/\.txt'`; done

Just joking.

You could use antiword for the older versions of Word documents, and try to parse the xml of the new ones.