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Hi, Am 20.11.25 um 13:20 schrieb Francesco Potortì:
Package: libreoffice Version: 4:25.8.2-3 Severity: normal When libreoffice is called from the command line for batch processing with --convert-to it apparently forces a limit on the number of arguments without telling. In my case, when giving the names of 371 files on the command line, it starts working and printing two lines for each processed file until 249 files are processed, then it hangs. If I give it 249 file arguments, it works without problems. The command line is: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash --convert-to csv:Text - txt - csv (StarCalc):44,,,,,,,,,,,3 --outdir ./tmp.GYzB1YV6z1 [ 42-char file names]
http://google.com/search?q=libreoffice+argument+limit+convert-to: " There is no specific argument limit for the libreoffice --convert-to command itself, but shell limitations on the number of arguments can cause issues when converting a very large number of files at once. To overcome this, process files in batches by creating scripts that convert groups of files, or use a tool like xargs to handle the conversion and avoid exceeding the shell's argument list limits, explains Stack Overflow.  Batch processing: Write a script to convert files in smaller, manageable batches to stay under the shell's argument limit. xargs: Use the xargs command, which is designed to build and execute command lines from standard input, to avoid hitting the argument count limit. xargs example: find . -name "*.docx" -print0 | xargs -0 libreoffice --convert-to pdf " (AI, but..) Sounds like your case exactly? And if it's the shell limit, there's nothing LO can do. Neither should it. Regadrs, Rene
