-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a large number of pdfs that I need to process into text files. > > I know that if I feed file1.pdf to pdftotext, it will write file1.txt. So, I tried doing > pdftotext *.pdf > , but got the program's help message, instead of bash expanding the filenames, and a bunch of .txt files. > > Since my bash programming is next to nothing, is there a way to do what I want without a script? > > Could I somehow get bash to expand the wildcard, and feed the individual files to pdftotext for it to spit out txt files? Well, you could try something like: ls |grep pdf|pdftotext But not having this program, I can't test it. Good luck. - -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ iD8DBQE99q8eKl9qIwuqk+IRAmImAKCKKAen4AWGCSZKYik66KCWBplrygCfUwOY BrSf6US5AMpgMJ5uYpR6Ch0= =ruLy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
