TEXTUTIL(1) BSD General Commands Manual TEXTUTIL(1)NAMEtextutil — text utility
SYNOPSIStextutil [command_option] [other_options] file ...
DESCRIPTIONtextutil can be used to manipulate text files of various formats, using
the mechanisms provided by the Cocoa text system.
The first argument indicates the operation to perform, one of:
-help Show the usage information for the command and exit. This
is the default command option if none is specified.
-info Display information about the specified files.
-convert fmt Convert the specified files to the indicated format and
write each one back to the file system.
-cat fmt Read the specified files, concatenate them, and write the
result out as a single file in the indicated format.
fmt is one of: txt, html, rtf, rtfd, doc, docx, wordml,
odt, or webarchive
There are some additional options for general use:
-extension ext Specify an extension to be used for output files (by
default, the extension will be determined from the for‐
mat).
-output path Specify the file name to be used for the first output
file.
-stdin Specify that input should be read from stdin rather than
from files.
-stdout Specify that the first output file should go to stdout.
-encoding IANA_name | NSStringEncoding
Specify the encoding to be used for plain text or HTML
output files (by default, the output encoding will be
UTF-8). NSStringEncoding refers to one of the numeric
values recognized by NSString. IANA_name refers to an
IANA character set name as understood by CFString. The
operation will fail if the file cannot be converted to
the specified encoding.
-inputencoding IANA_name | NSStringEncoding
Force all plain text input files to be interpreted using
the specified encoding (by default, a file's encoding
will be determined from its BOM). The operation will
fail if the file cannot be interpreted using the speci‐
fied encoding.
-format fmt Force all input files to be interpreted using the indi‐
cated format (by default, a file's format will be deter‐
mined from its contents).
-font font Specify the name of the font to be used for converting
plain to rich text.
-fontsize size Specify the size in points of the font to be used for
converting plain to rich text.
-- Specify that all further arguments are file names.
There are some additional options for HTML and WebArchive files:
-noload Do not load subsidiary resources.
-nostore Do not write out subsidiary resources.
-baseurl url Specify a base URL to be used for relative URLs.
-timeout t Specify the time in seconds to wait for resources to
load.
-textsizemultiplier x
Specify a numeric factor by which to multiply font
sizes.
-excludedelements (tag1, tag2, ...)
Specify which HTML elements should not be used in gener‐
ated HTML (the list should be a single argument, and so
will usually need to be quoted in a shell context).
-prefixspaces n Specify the number of spaces by which to indent nested
elements in generated HTML (default is 2).
There are some additional options for treating metadata:
-strip Do not copy metadata from input files to output files.
-title val Specify the title metadata attribute for output files.
-author val Specify the author metadata attribute for output files.
-subject val Specify the subject metadata attribute for output files.
-keywords (val1, val2, ...)
Specify the keywords metadata attribute for output files
(the list should be a single argument, and so will usually
need to be quoted in a shell context).
-comment val Specify the comment metadata attribute for output files.
-editor val Specify the editor metadata attribute for output files.
-company val Specify the company metadata attribute for output files.
-creationtime yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ
Specify the creation time metadata attribute for output
files.
-modificationtime yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssZ
Specify the modification time metadata attribute for output
files.
EXAMPLEStextutil-info foo.rtf
displays information about foo.rtf.
textutil-convert html foo.rtf
converts foo.rtf into foo.html.
textutil-convert rtf -font Times -fontsize 10 foo.txt
converts foo.txt into foo.rtf, using Times 10 for the font.
textutil-cat html -title "Several Files" -output index.html *.rtf
loads all RTF files in the current directory, concatenates their con‐
tents, and writes the result out as index.html with the HTML title set to
"Several Files".
DIAGNOSTICS
The textutil command exits 0 on success, and 1 on failure.
CAUTIONS
Some options may require a connection to the window server.
HISTORY
The textutil command first appeared in Mac OS X 10.4.
Mac OS X September 9, 2004 Mac OS X
