Open Source Unix Shell Text Editors for Linux

Docx2txt is a Perl based command-line utility to convert (even corrupted) Microsoft docx documents to reasonably formatted text files, along with appropriate character conversions. Apart from Perl it also requires a command line unzipping program like unzip/7z/pkzipc/wzunzip.

TEA is a text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and the syntax highlighting. There are two branches of TEA: Qt-based and GTK-based.

ScriptEchoColor simplifies Linux terminal text colorizing, formatting and several steps of script coding.

EPT (Emacs Package Tool) is full userspace package managing tool for GNU/Emacs.

A Simple Tool Kit for Programmers and general users. The purpose of this project is to benefit both the programmers and the end users.

A UNIX Shell script wrapper for the VI editor. It is recommended VIB be used as an alias for the VI editor. VIB creates backups of any files edited using VI to a specified location while maintaining X backup revisions, and keeping a revision history of who made changes and when to a master log. VIB is Ideal in environments where you have multiple users logging into a UNIX system and you wish to keep track of whom is modifying files. For example, VIB could be 'aliased' in all new user shell accounts, so that when they edit a file using "vi", a log entry will be generated, and a backup copy of the file with their username will also be notated. The goal of VIB is to assist with tracking who modified what file, when on a UNIX/Linux systsm.

ex2x is a unix/linux commandbased tool to convert German-Umlauts(äöüß) and any kind of Strings to xml entities. - Use this tool during the creation of WAPpages or any kind of XMLdcouments. - converting a huge amount of dynamicly created pages

Latexss is a program that can transform a text file with a very minimal style syntax into a self contained LaTeX spreadsheet powered by the fp package. A graphical front-end (klatexss) is provided to generate both the text and the LaTeX file.

OASI is a collection of open source tools and best practices to build an enterprise solution from SO to clustered DB and application server up to application solution. GPL tools released allow management and installation/configuration of the whole syste

Vi move (vimv) - rename the files in a directory using the vi text editor.