Convert docx file to an epub file

xpub

#!/bin/bash

# $1 = path to directory where docx files are stored

dir="$1"
for dox in $1/*.docx; do
    # filename with spaces replaced with underscores
    doc="${dox// /_}"
    # path without extension
    noext=${doc%.*}
    echo $doc
    # rename filename with spaces replaced
    if [ "$dox" != "$doc" ]; then 
        mv "$dox" "$doc"; 
    fi 
    # convert docx to plain text
	soffice --headless --convert-to "txt:Text (encoded):UTF8" "$doc" --outdir "$dir"
    # prepare paragraphs for pandoc 
	sed -i -r ':a;/^$/{d;ba};x;s/^.+$/\n/g;p;x' "$noext".txt
    # make the epub
	pandoc "$noext".txt -o "$noext".epub
done