Make soffice command of Libreoffice work on Mac OS X

Make soffice command of Libreoffice work on Mac OS X.md

Quick Start

sudo curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pankaj28843/3ad78df6290b5ba931c1/raw/soffice.sh > /usr/local/bin/soffice && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/soffice

Create an bash script at /usr/local/bin/soffice with following content

#!/bin/bash

# Need to do this because symlink won't work
# It complains about some .plist files
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice "$@"

Make it executable

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/soffice

Usage

Convert an excel file to pdf

soffice --headless --convert-to pdf:"calc_pdf_Export" /path/to/some/.xlsx/file

soffice.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Need to do this because symlink won't work
# It complains about some .plist files
/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice "$@"

Your paths are missing the L in local.

/usr/loca/bin/soffice

Does this work in latest version ? Because I am not able to locate soffice script under Applications

please change /usr/loca/ to /usr/local/ 😄

Please, change psjinx to your new nickname

Thanks for the tip, to simplify I just use

/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice

brew install --cask libreoffice also creates a soffice binary.

Why go to all this trouble when you can create a symlink from a local bin folder in your PATH?