Use XeLaTeX to create a sampler for each of the fonts available to the local system

fontlist.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# fontlist.sh: Create a XeLaTeX document giving samples for each of the fonts
# available to the local system from fc-list, and run XeLaTeX on it ignoring
# errors.
#
# Ben Cohen, August 2020.
#

OUTFILE=fontlist.tex

cat > $OUTFILE <<-EOF
	\\documentclass{article}
	\\usepackage{fontspec}
	\\usepackage[english]{babel}
	\\usepackage{blindtext}
	\\usepackage{xltxtra}
	\\title{Samples of locally available fonts in \\XeLaTeX}
	\\begin{document}
	\\maketitle
EOF

IFS=$'\n'
for i in $(fc-list :outline -f "%{family}\n" | grep -o "^[^,]*" | grep -v "_")
do
	cat >> $OUTFILE <<-EOF

		\\setmainfont{$i}
		\\section*{$i \\texttt{($i)}}
		\\blindtext
	EOF
done

cat >> $OUTFILE <<-EOF

	\\end{document}
EOF

echo R | xelatex $OUTFILE