On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Jochen Spieker
<ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
lina:
>
> for i in a b c
> do
> txt2pdf -input i.txt -out i.pdf
> done
You almost nailed it:
for i in a b c ; do
txt2pdf -input ${i}.txt -out ${i}.pdf
done
Instead of listing the files manually, you can use '*' as a wildcard.
But that only works if your filenames don't contain whitespace. A more
robust solution:
There is no whitespace in those filenames,
but the situation is a bit different,
here we have .txt file and also .log files
and only .txt files are expected to convert,
find /dir/to/files -type f -print0 | \
xargs -0 -I§ txt2pdf -input § -out §.pdf
only succeed in transforming one of them,
the rest just terminated.
This will produce filenames like "a.txt.pdf", but you get the idea.
xargs hast the additional benefit that you can use multiple cores at
once when using the -P option.
Thanks for your suggestion.
J.
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