On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Jochen Spieker <[email protected]>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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Best Regards,
lina
