I'm trying to open a file in Openoffice from terminal and to automatically replace a string with another one given as parameter. Can I use a macro or something similar?
Please tell me it's possible.
Thank you very much
Assuming that you mean an ODF file, then ODF files are mostly zipped XML. You can use your favourite scripting language to unzip it, replace the string in the relevant file, and rezip it. Here is the ODF spec. Here is a Python example.
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I want to modify a file in this package, but I can't compress it with the same method that was used before (on another PC). Anyone can give me a piece of advice how to compress it and with which software? For example I want to edit the scripts\alienware_light_fx.xml file and then compress the whole package again.
P.S. Sorry for my bad english! :(
That is a zip file. Any zip utility can create or modify it. You don't need to recompress the whole thing. A zip utility will allow you to simply replace that one entry.
So I have an old dictionary on my pc, pretty old that I cannot find
any track of it's developer or the website (I guess it hasnt even been released
as an official software). I have a personal project of mine and I might need some
of this words translated (about 200-300) and I see that inside the data folder that
contains the database/list of files but Im unable to extract or read this files.
Is there any way to extract or convert these .bin files to a text format or something
readable. I've used some tools like (alcohol 120%, isobuster, magiciso, Izarc) but with
no luck. I keep getting and error message saying it is not a valid cd image file.
So I'm thinking maybe this type of .bin files are not like .bin or .iso cd files that
you can mount and read and something else might be in this case.
If you have any information kindly reply with
your suggestions.
Thank you alot.
You can try using the strings utility to extract the strings out of the file. It comes with any Linux distribution and if you are on Windows, you can get it from Windows Sysinternals.
If you are lucky and the words are not encoded, you may be able to get at the data you are looking for.
.bin is one of those extensions that has been way overused, and could be anything... What did the file come from originally? Do you need to convert these words and store them back in the original file (in their transformed form), and then expect the original app to work correctly?
I have a database file with .DB file extension. I have been googling and it looks like SQLite. I tried to connect to it using SQLite and SQLite3 drivers and I am getting an error "File is encrypted or not a database".
So I dont know if file is encrypted or it is not an SQLite database. Are there any other options what should the .DB extension should be? How do I find out that file is encrypted?
I tried to open it in the text editor and it is mostly a mess of charaters and some times there are words visible. I have uploaded the file here: http://cl.ly/3k0E01373r3v182a3p1o for the closer look.
Thank you for your hints and ideas what to do and how to work with this file.
Marco Pontello's TrID is a great way to determine the type of any file.
TrID is simple to use. Just run TrID and point it to the file to be analyzed. The file will be read and compared with the definitions in the database. Results are presented in order of highest probability.
Just download the executable and the latest definitions file into the same directory and then run TrID:
trid.exe "path/to/file.xyz"
It will output a list of possible file types for the file with a confidence rating. Here's a screenshot of using TrID to analyze a SQLite database file:
There's also a GUI version called TrIDNet:
If you're on a Unix-like platform (Mac OS X, Linux, etc), you could try running file myfile.db to see if that can figure out what type of file it is. The file utility will inspect the beginning of the file, looking for any clues like magic numbers, headers, and so on to determine the type of the file.
Look at the first 30 bytes of the file (open it in Notepad, Notepad++ or another simple text viewer). There's usually some kind of tag or extension name in there.
Both SQLite 2 and SQLite 3 have a very clear message: SQLite format 3 for SQLite 3 (obviously) and This file contains an SQLite 2.1 database for SQLite 2.
Note that encrypted SQLite databases don't have a header like that since the entire file is encrypted. See siyw's comment below.
On a Unix-like system (or Cygwin under Windows), the strings utility will search a file for strings, and print them to stdout. Might help you narrow the field.
There are a lot of programs besides database programs that use a "db" extension, including
ArcView Object Database File (ESRI)
MultiEdit
Netscape
Palm
and so on. Google "file extensions" for some sites that catalog file extensions and the programs that use them.
There's no conclusive way to know, because SQLite encrypts the entire database file, including the header.
Further, there's not a lot of difference to you, except for possible error text to a user if you're prompting them for a password.
i have a requirement to export data to tsr file only. Previously we used to export to csv file.
Can anyone tell me what is tsr file and what is the content format? Is the contents in someway similar with csv?
Google does not come up with something convincing. I suggest you ask your client to explain the requirement in more detail. TSR does not seem to be a generally understood format.
Maybe TSV (tab-separated values, VERY similar to CSV)?
TSR are shared repository file. Basically you can see this type of file in HP UFT. Whenever you create object in UFT it goes into repository with extension .tsr.
See this: http://www.computerfileextensions.com/file-extensions.php/TSR
But the results are not so clear/convincing.
Can not you ask for a sample tsr file from your client?
Another result for related to TSR files, but it's probably another format the OP was looking for.
The TSR file extension is related to TSR Launcher, a fan-made program for The Sims 3 computer game series that allows users to quickly install Sims3Pack files without using the Launcher provided by EA. It looks like the program is no longer available for download.
A *.tsr file is used for download basket function. Most likely some sort of container.
http://www.file-extensions.org/tsr-file-extension
I am trying to locate a set of source code that would allow me to open and read the contents of an Excel file on Linux from within a C program.
I dont really want to link it to OpenOffice SDK if I can find something that just does these two things.
carl
If following suites you, then You may take read routines from
Sourceforge
and write routines from
What is a simple and reliable C library for working with Excel files?
As far as I know there is no library that does this. The common method is always to save the file as CVS in Excel, although then markup etc. is lost.
You could try to use the Excel plugin of Gnumeric:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnumeric/trunk/plugins/excel/
It works very well (inside gnumeric).
You can use xlhtml to convert the Excel files into HTML, and then use your favorite HTML parser to extract the cell data.
Check out the answers to What is the best C library that can access Excel files?
Possible things for you to look at:
C : xlsLib
C++ : LibExcel
Though I think both are write-only, which is perhaps not what you need.
Grab the xls reading code from Open Office.
why don't you just use Google Docs? With Gears it has offline support and you can edit files too, just a thought - http://docs.google.com
Check out XLSX I/O at https://sourceforge.net/projects/xlsxio/
It is a cross platform C library to read from and write to Excel .xslx files.
Works on Windows, OS X, Linux and does not require Excel or Office to be installed.
It is intended for sequential access to data in .xlsx files, so if it's only the values you are interested in this is what you need.