ODFFINDBASIC(1)

💅 odffindbasic — or, how to yeet Basic macros out of your OpenOffice.org files ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to odffindbasic, a little icon from the Perl world (User Contributed Perl Documentation, no less 👑). She's a simple command that lets you detect, export, or remove the Basic modules hanging out inside a regular OpenOffice.org file. Lowkey a vibe check for macros. 🦋

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🌸 USAGE 🌸

odffindbasic [options] <sourcefile> [<targetfile>]

Yup, that's it. Source file first, optional target file second, options wherever you want them. Slay. 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie. this command is literally the macro bouncer for your OpenOffice.org files. she can detect, export, or remove the Basic modules in a regular OpenOffice.org file, and she does not miss. 💅

Run her with no options and she just tells you the number of Basic modules she found in the file. That's her default main character energy. 👑

And the 2nd filename? That one's a team effort — it's used in combination with the --delete option. iykyk. 🫶

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --nocount — stops the program from displaying the number of Basic modules found. so she does the work in silence, no receipts, very mysterious of her 🙈
• --delete, -d — ok this is the big one. If this option is set, the Basic modules are physically deleted, and the file manifest is updated accordingly. 💀

but (and this is the important part) the document content remains unchanged, even if it contains some references to the deleted macros. The code is removed — so the macros are no longer executable. gone. not coming back. periodt. 🔥

If you hand over a target file name as a 2nd argument, the changes are saved in it and the source file remains unchanged. so your original stays safe and untouched, like a good little backup 💖

• --export, -e — exports the macros! Every Basic module gets extracted and converted to a flat Basic source file in the current directory. 📁 The name of each created file is constructed according to the corresponding path in the ODF file, and its suffix is "bas". cute, organized, iconic. 🎀
• --list, -l — the Basic modules are listed through the standard output. just a little parade of macros, right there in your terminal 🌈
• --verbose — some information messages are printed. she's a talker when you ask her to be 🗣️✨

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ngl bestie, --delete is doing real surgery — the manifest gets updated and the code is genuinely removed. The document content itself stays as-is, so any leftover references to those deleted macros are still chilling in there. she told you, you were warned, no cap 🫶

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kisses and bye-bye 💜 — this page came from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the footer says perl v5.42.3 dated 2010-07-12. vintage! she's been serving since 2010 and still ate. 👑✨