catt

catt.sh

#!/bin/sh

case "$1" in
*.pdf)
   exec pdftotext -layout "$1" -
   ;;
*.xl[ast][xmt])
   exec unzip -qc "$1" *.xml |  sed -e 's/<\/[vft]>/\n/g; s/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]\n]\{1,\}//g'
   ;;
*.xlsb)
   unzip -qc "$1" *.bin |  strings -e l
   ;;
*.xl[wsrta])
   exec strings  "$1"
   ;;
*.do[ct])
   exec catdoc -m160 "$1"
   ;;
*.do[tc][xm])
   exec unzip -qc "$1" word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<\/w:p>/\n/g; s/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]\n]\{1,\}//g'
   ;;
*.p[po]t)
   exec strings -d "$1"
   ;;
*.p[po]t[xm])
   exec unzip -qc "$1" ppt/slides/*.xml | sed -e 's/<\/a:t>/\n/g; s/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]\n]\{1,\}//g'
   ;;
*.html)
   exec cat "$1" | w3m -T text/html -dump -cols 250
   ;;
*.epub)
   exec unzip -qc "$1" *.*htm* |  w3m -T text/html -dump -cols 250
   ;;
*.chm)
   exec 7z e -r -so "$1" *.*htm* | w3m -T text/html -dump -cols 250
   ;;
*)
   case $(file "$1") in
   *Zstandard*)
       exec pzstd -cdq "$1"
       ;;
   *)
       exec cat "$1"
       ;;
   esac
   ;;
esac