[rubyfan]

I haven’t looked under the hood here but to make simple text replacement via command line is an LLM even required? A human driven command line tool to do basic substitution on batches of files reliably would be amazing.

[BorisMelnik]

there is a python library for docx handling. my thinking was the use case for this was for larger scale automations / document processing.

[cyanydeez]

you've never dealt with ooxml.

[rubyfan]

Sadly I have spent lots of time with ooxml and pdf and my experience suggests there really aren’t reliable means for dealing with seemingly simple changes.

[asdff]

sed, awk. docx is just zipped xml.

[phil-martin]

It is just zipped xml, but to do a search and replace while retaining document structure is very very complicated, and I’m struggling to think of how to combine sed and awk to achieve it.

[kirillklimuk]

Not really - if you wanna do a text replacement you can extract it yourself and do some work (or just use this CLI). The library is designed for longer workloads.