Sometimes it is convenient and necessary to deal with Microsoft Word doc documents directly on Linux command line. MS Word documents handling directly from the Linux command line is possible with Antiword program. Anti-Word is a small, easy to use and lightweight command line program that can convert Microsoft Word documents to PDF, PostScript, and XML.

For example, the following situations Antiword is a very useful tool:

• MS Word document can be read from a remote server easily and quickly.
• Several MS Word documents, texts need to be combined into a single text file.
• Several MS Word documents have to find some lines of text.
• MS Word document must be converted to PDF format.

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