I have a folder called X which inside has many folders and sub-folders. I want to search in all of the folders inside X and find a specific document type. For example xlsx and transform each file into an xls file. In this case I need to use the libreoffice convert option like libreoffice --headless --convert-to xls but here is the catch. After conversion each converted file should be in the same folder as the original xlsx file. All sub-folders have random names and may have other sub-folders.
Example:
X/
Folder 1/
file.xlsx
Folder 2/
Folder 2.1/file.xlsx
Folder 3/
Folder 4/
Folder 4.1/anotherFile.xlsx
After conversion:
X/
Folder 1/
file.xls
file.xlsx
Folder 2/
Folder 2.1/file.xls
Folder 2.1/file.xlsx
Folder 3/
Folder 4/
Folder 4.1/anotherFile.xls
Folder 4.1/anotherFile.xlsx
The new xls* in this case, will be converted on the same folder as the original xlsx. This will be done inside all sub-folders and to all xlsx that are found. So after the conversion finishes, all xlsx files will have their respective xls files beside them.
I should mention that this is not the same as others questions here about conversion because:
- I don’t want to output all files to the same folder. They should each go inside the same folder as their converted file.
- They should not be converted and output in the working folder. The working folder where I execute the command is one thing. The output of each file is in their respective converted file’s folder.
- If this is not available with the current libreoffice command, a for, find or any other Linux command can be used. This should run on an Linux OS like Ubuntu.