https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117731
Bug ID: 117731
Summary: Batch libreoffice --convert-to offers no way to wait
for document completion
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 6.0.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: richard.elk...@gmail.com
Description:
Command-line: libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt:writer8 myfile.txt
The returned status code ($?) is zero. So far, so good.
But, when I try to use the ODT file (E.g. copy it), it doesn't exist yet.
Yes, I tried `sync; sync; sync` but it did not help.
If I add a `sleep 1` immediately after checking the status code, then this
seems to allow enough time for some libreoffice subprocess (?) to finish.
Before version 6, I did not need the sleep step. Maybe, this is some sort of
optimization? If so, please provide an option to indicate that libreoffice
should hold up the process until the desired output is available.
I am using libreoffice 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 on Xubuntu 18.04.
`libreoffice --help` shows:
LibreOffice 6.0.3.2 00m0(Build:2)
Steps to Reproduce:
Linux batch script, starting with an existing text file called "myfile.txt":
libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt:writer8 myfile.txt
RC=$?
if [ $RC -ne 0 ]; then
echo '*** libreoffice conversion failed for myfile.txt'
exit 86
fi
cp myfile.odt somewhere-else.odt
Actual Results:
cp: cannot stat 'myfile.odt': No such file or directory
Expected Results:
Copy completes as normal because myfile.odt is available.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/60.0
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