>>>>> Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> writes:
>>>>> 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.
Whitespace is not a problem as long as one remembers to
double-quote Shell $ubstitutions, like:
for i in a b c ; do
txt2pdf -input "${i}.txt" -out "${i}.pdf"
done
> A more robust solution:
> find /dir/to/files -type f -print0 | \
> xargs -0 -I§ txt2pdf -input § -out §.pdf
find(1) has -exec, which simplifies the above to:
find /dir/to/files -type f \
-exec txt2pdf -input {} -out {}.pdf \;
> 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.
>> sorry I can only think of the debian user list to ask now.
There's also the news:comp.unix.shell newsgroup, dedicated to
the Shell language.
I haven't ever tried it, but I guess that using Google Groups
[1] shouldn't be much different to using Google Mail.
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell/
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