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Last active February 13, 2022 15:45
How to make git diff work perfectly with .docx files in Mac OS X (it even colors by word)
# download docx2txt by Sandeep Kumar
wget -O docx2txt.pl http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~kinzler/home/binp/docx2txt
# make a wrapper
echo '#!/bin/bash
docx2txt.pl $1 -' > docx2txt
chmod +x docx2txt
# make sure docx2txt.pl and docx2txt are your current PATH. Here's a guide
http://shapeshed.com/using_custom_shell_scripts_on_osx_or_linux/