Access LibreOffice Autotext templates from command line

Question

I want to use the Autotext templates from the command line. The location are this:

%APPDATA%\LibreOffice\4\user\autotext\mytexts.bau

C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\autotext\en-US\template.bau

C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\autotext\en-US\standard.bau

C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\share\autotext\en-US\crdbus50.bau

I'm trying to access that file without success. Any idea?

Answer 1

These files are compressed archives that use standard ZIP compression algorithms.

First, decompress them using any ZIP decompression tool, such as 7-Zip or Peazip.

When you decompress the archives, the output will be readable.

From the command line, you can view the contents of any of the output files by using the command shell's integrated type command.

For example, to view the BlockList.xml that was extracted from the archive %APPDATA%\LibreOffice\4\user\autotext\mytexts.bau, use the command:

type %APPDATA%\LibreOffice\4\user\autotext\BlockList.xml

If you want the command shell to pause after each screenful of text, you can pipe through the more command, like this:

type %APPDATA%\LibreOffice\4\user\autotext\BlockList.xml | more