Timeline for Get "Text Content" of Files
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Aug 21, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | user44370 | You could try to build a shell script that leverages identifying the type of file then calling the appropriate tool(like pdftotext). | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 16:35 | history | edited | Kevin Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Nov 4, 2013 at 12:41 | history | edited | Kevin Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 155 characters in body |
| Nov 4, 2013 at 3:00 | answer | added | Jason C | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 4, 2013 at 0:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/397164177657450496 | ||
| Nov 4, 2013 at 0:17 | comment | added | slm♦ | Not sure about sfk, sounds like what you want, it's non-standard. stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html | |
| Nov 4, 2013 at 0:08 | comment | added | Kevin Cox | Yeah, I don't need high fidelity or anything. Think of getting a quick preview or to index it for searching. | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 23:59 | comment | added | slm♦ | Wait you want just the contents of the file, in a text format? | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 23:58 | answer | added | slm♦ | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 23:40 | history | asked | Kevin Cox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |