Are there any (good) *terminal based* (ie. runs in a VT, not in GUI/X) spreadsheets or wordprocessors for Unix/Linux? Can anybody remember the name of such programs which were popular before (eg. before X became so widespread)? I know the "correct" way of doing wordprocessing in Unix is using a markup-language like LaTeX or GROFF together with a simple editor like vi or emacs... But what I'm wondering about, is if there is - or was (anybody remember an older program that did this?) - something like the old MS-DOS (pre-Windows) WordPerfect-like program for Unix? Where you didn't have true WYSIWYG, but where things like emphesize and underline was marked in the text with colors, reverse video and such. Programs that are more "front ends" for LaTeX or some XML-format to create wordprocess-documents are also of interest, provided they use the terminal and use colors and such to mark things like emphesized text (rather than you see the latex format-code). Eg. you press CTRL-I, the text you write turns reverse video, and is written to file inbetween format-codes for emphesize.

Are there office suites or software for Solaris 11? OpenOffice, OnlyOffice, LibreOffice, etc.

I am using Debian 10. fc-list shows following fonts installed on my system: $ fc-list | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u Bitstream Charter Century Schoolbook L Courier 10 Pitch DejaVu Sans DejaVu Sans Mono DejaVu Serif Dingbats Inconsolata Inconsolata for Powerline Nimbus Mono L Nimbus Roman No9 L Nimbus Sans L Standard Symbols L URW Bookman L URW Chancery L URW Gothic L URW Palladio L and here is the selection of fonts I see available in my document editor Abiword: Most of the idiotic fonts displayed seem to have been installed via package gsfonts: # fc-list | grep gsfonts | cut -d':' -f2 | sort -u Century Schoolbook L Dingbats Nimbus Mono L Nimbus Roman No9 L Nimbus Sans L Standard Symbols L URW Bookman L URW Chancery L URW Gothic L URW Palladio L gsfonts was installed as a dependency for several packages (abiword, gnumeric, libmagickcore-6.q16-6) so I cannot remove this package. **Is there a way to hide these useless fonts from the font selection in my editor? (or globally for all applications)** I am sure I will never need Dingbats or URW Chancery L fonts when writing letters in my editor. The long list of available fonts only confuses me, every time I have to look for the 2 or 3 fonts that are actually useful. It steals few seconds of my life each time I have to sort through the list. Also, a side-question, the drop-down list shown in the screenshot of Abiword shows 3 generic fonts that are not listed by fc-list: Monospace, Sans, Serif. Where do these come from? Are these hardcoded in Abiword ? Or are these just aliases pointing to the specific fonts? Lastly, does anybody really need Dingbats font (perhaps for displaying pdfs ?) Or is it installed by gsfonts only to increase the bloat?

Using below function to filter out text file and organize to new format. Using unix redirection > command to create new files. **How can I get rid of creating all new files** > (e.g. ${file}_final_1.txt,${file}_only_${pattern}.txt) **without deleting it afterword using rm command ?**

filter(){
  cat ${file}_1.txt | grep -v ${pattern} > ${file}_final_1.txt                            
  cat ${file}_1.txt | grep ${pattern} > ${file}_only_${pattern}.txt                        
  cat ${file}_only_${pattern}.txt  | nawk -F '|' '{ print $NF}' > ${pattern}_TS.txt        
  paste ${pattern}_TS.txt ${file}_only_${pattern}.txt > ${pattern}_TS_file.txt
  cat ${pattern}_TS_file.txt | grep "|${DT}|" | grep ${pattern} | sort -r | head -1 > ${file}_f.txt
  cat ${file}_f.txt >> ${file}_final_1.txt
  dos2unix ${file}_final_1.txt ${file}_final.txt
}

How can we read Microsoft Word (.doc) files in a Linux system? It doesn't support .doc files. I tried > strings filename.doc | less but it gives ugly output. Any other option? I would prefer a GUI based tool.

I use Emacs 23 on Debian sid. I can check the spelling of a word in Emacs with M-$. How can I obtain synonyms (using a thesaurus?) for a word in Emacs? None of the following were useful: one , two , three . If I download synonyms.el from the second link, where should I place it? Do I need to download a thesaurus as well?

I have a folder full of .doc or .docx files. I'd like to know how many words--or, failing that, characters or lines--are in each file without opening each one of them. (Use case: I'm a TA who needs to grade a ton of reading responses each week for completion.) Is there some way to do this from command line? I'd eventually like to get all of this in a .csv file. I'm happy to download some utility to do this. I run Arch linux, if that matters.

How can I add a few line breaks? I want it to show OpenFin category, have a line break, Chrome category, another line break, then memoryInfo. Here is what I have so far: cat LoginExInternal.txt | grep OpenFin >> LoginExcInternal.txt | echo $'\r' && cat LoginExInternal.txt | grep Chrome >> LoginExcInternal.txt | echo $'\r' && cat MemoryUnderThreshold.txt | grep memoryInfo:jsHeapSizeLimit:1 >> LoginExcInternal.txt | echo $'\r' I can't seem to get it into new lines though, the echo $'\r' doesn't seem to work. Please tell me how I can modify to make this work.

I have a text file that has something like this: loginName: Name1 userAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/ (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.104 OpenFin/9.61.31.74 loginName: Name2 userAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/ (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.112 loginName: Name3 userAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/ (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.105 OpenFin/9.61.31.78 loginName: Name4 userAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/ (KHTML like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Some has only Chrome/X.X.X.X and others have Chrome/X.X.X.X OpenFin/X.X.X.X The ones that only have Chrome/X.X.X.X, I want to leave them alone. The ones that include OpenFin/X.X.X.X, I want to remove Chrome/X.X.X.X from those lines. I tried the following but had no luck. sed 's/Chrome*.*OpenFin/OpenFin/' filename

I need to do something like that using sed? qq ab xyz ab qq aa ab Becomes: qq ab xyz +ab+ +qq+ aa +ab+

I have a bunch of CLI-only computers (I have not bothered to set up a GUI yet). I'm comfortable enough in the CLI to not NEED a GUI for most things. However, as a student, turning in Plain-Text documents really doesn't cut it. Is there a way to edit Rich Text Format (.rtf) files from a CLI without popping into a GUI? I'd just need justification (Right, Left, Center), bolding, italics, and a bit of fonts (Sometimes I need to pad my Times New Roman font to a full 13 points to reach a page limit). Heck, it could all be done manually in HTML, with a web-browser engine, and saving to the interesting .rtf font symbols instead of HTML tags. Anybody know a way for me to do this?

I am looking for an open source word processor that can do the following: - Text size - Access a font database - Big font/cursive - Tables - List - Non-analogue imitation

I would like to remove each row that possesses a singleton in the first column. e.g. Input: Letters represent variables of which there may be thousands. Numbers represent columns and rows. There are multiple columns (not shown here). 1. 1. A 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. D 6. E 7. A 8. H 9. D 10. D Output: 1. 1. A 3. C 4. C 5. D 7. A 9. D 10. D

I have client filtering out data from an live MQTT stream which writes the data into a myfile.csv file, here are the last four lines:

1426134425,m,NWRL,MSV,001,d,SVlts,139,1840343,26089,28529,15987
1426134444,m,NWRL,MSV,001,d,status,139,1859000,23911,-33.836465,151.051189
1426134834,m,gf,TMX6BP,075,d,SVlts,216,1243746,27209,27409,17106
1426134845,m,gf,TMX6BP,075,d,status,216,1254000,179583,-33.836465,151.051189

This file constantly gets updated. So the last line of the csv file would constantly be changing however it would still be in the same format. __Q:__ How can I read the last line where the 7th value is 'status' not 'SVlts' of the myfile.csv file with bash? Once read how can I assign the 4th, 5th and 10th value to a 3 different variables? I will be pushing these values out to update a MySQL table. So the output can be something as follows:

variable_1=TMX6BP
variable_2=075
variable_3=179583

As mentioned these three variables will be pushed/sent out to update a MySQL table (which needs these three variables in order to update itself) until the next line is printed in to the myfile.csv. And this will happen over and over again.

I am dumping datum into a csv file (my_datum_file.csv). The [contents](http://www.codeshare.io/vnkkQ) are all comma seperated, and I want to find the _last_ instance of the 4th parameter (i.e. the last instance of datum regarding MX3, TMX, MSV, etc. where printed). The 5th parameter is a 'subclass' of the 4th parameter (ie TMX has 098 and 001). It is also important that the 7th parameter be "status" as opposed to "SVlts". __Q:__ I want the 10th value (which is a period of time in minutes) to convert to hours. I would like to print this value out. So from the terminal I wrote:

$ cat /home/ed/start_up_job/my_datum_file.csv | awk -F, '( $4 == "TMX" ) && ( $5 == "098" ) && ( $7 == "status" ) {print $10/60}' | tail -1`'

The end result is 1022.25 hours, which is great; I've embedded this into generic little bash script

#!/bin/bash

machine_ID="$1"
machine_number="$2"

echo "$1 $2 hours is awk -F, -v MID="$machine_id" -v MNR="$machine_number" '( $4 == MID ) && ( $5 == MNR ) && ( $7 == "status" ) {t=$10} END{print int(t/60)}' /home/ed/start_up_job/my_datum_file.csv"

so when I call my bash script from the terminal $ ./myscript.txt TMX 098 I get the following output TMX 098 hours is: 0 My expected output would be TMX 098 hours is: 1022.25 I don't know what is wrong?

Are there any OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice equation editor/makers, similar to [MathType](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MathType) ?

In this directory I have English dict and my language file, but where I can download other language? Or maybe you known other free dictionary? I need to make list of word that are not in the dictionary.

> **Possible Duplicate:** > [Linux for low-end hardware and internet browsing](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2059/linux-for-low-end-hardware-and-internet-browsing) My dad has a rather old computer that's just sitting there that I want to repurpose. Now I know could probably get a Pentium 4 very cheap but where's the fun in that? What I'm after is something that's simple to use that will run on a Pentium II or III (I can't remember) with 4GB of HDD space and probably about 512MB of RAM. What can I install on this to make it work?