then you would do this as follows:
for FILE in 'locate *.rtf'; do unrtf --nopics --text '$FILE'
>'$FILE.txt' && rm -f $FILE; done
On 4/22/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
> Bash.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Levi Campbell" <levicc00123 at gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: More scripting help
>
>
> > what shell are you using?
> >
> > On 4/22/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Hi people,
> >> I want to change all the RTF files on my computer into TXT ones. I tried
> >> the
> >> following:
> >>
> >> for FILE in `locate *.rtf`
> >> do
> >> {
> >> unrtf --nopics --text '$FILE' >'$FILE.txt'
> >> rm -f $FILE
> >> }
> >> done
> >>
> >> But I have a problem, unrtf says there's an error opening the file, but
> >> it
> >> won't give me a name, so I don't know if my variable is getting asigned
> >> properly, I just know that for every file, I get a "Can't open file"
> >> error.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers.
> >>
> >> PS: I would also like to avoid (if at all possible) the crap that unrtf
> >> puts
> >> into the resulting text file, is this possible?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Chris Norman
> >> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> >>
> >>
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