Office sed

Small utility based on pure-python (sed module) coreutils library i wrote with my friend @e1four15f.

ofsed can handle only substitution commands, because it is most frequent usecase and dealing with line breaks in xml from office files can be kinda tricky.

If you want to grep things from office files, check out office cat

How to launch

Download repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/readysloth-Tools/office-sed.git

Most likely you want to launch it like this:

python3 ofsed.py 's/mY\s[regular] (expression)/\1\1\1/Ig' file.odt document.docx ...

We didn't reinvent the wheel, so s command is based python regexps. You can refer to capture groups in the same way, as you can do it in python.

But I dare you from using \0 capturing group for full match. It can corrupt your document.

Help

If you want better understanding of what is happening, read source code of ofsed and sed module.

usage: ofsed.py [-h] [-i] [-r] CMD PATH [PATH ...]

Program to "sed" .docx and .odt files

positional arguments:
  CMD            command to execute
  PATH           path to document file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -i, --inplace  change files inplace
  -r, --raw      use ofsed on raw xml files