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This is LO 6.0.7.3 on Windows 7 Enterprise. All other instances of LO have been shut down (I discovered in Linux that this was vital.)

Here is example non-output:

C:\Users\[snip]>"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\swriter.exe" --cat "Some file.docx"

C:\Users\[snip]>
C:\Users\[snip]>"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\swriter.exe" --version

C:\Users\[snip]>

It's in the --help output, so you'd think it should work.

   --cat           Dump text content of the following files to console
                   (implies --headless). Cannot be used with --convert-to.

Thanks

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Those options are not shown on the Libre Office Help page which discusses command line options and Windows.

As to why they are not available, the place to ask would be the Libre Office Forum.

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  • I edited the answer showing that --cat is mentioned in the --help output.
    – RonJohn
    Commented Jun 7, 2019 at 20:26
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I wondered about --cat, too.

It's probably some old dead code in LibreOffice, or a bug, and The Right Thing To Do™ is report it in the issue tracker. (I didn't look, but I'll bet there's already an open issue.)

However,

path\to\soffice --writer --convert-to txt filename.ext

will probably do what you expected --cat to do.

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