virtanen wrote:
> For example I've got:
> __________________________
>
> asiakirja1.doc
> asiak2.doc
> asia.doc
> etc
> about twenty word documents starting with 'a'.
>
> _____________________________
>
> And I wanted to get them each into html, if possible with a single
> command.
>
> I've tried something like:
>
> mswordview as*.doc > as*.html
>
> But that gives me only one html document:
> as*.html.
>
> What to do?
> (Some people who know linux/unix well will surely know an easy answer how
> to do it.)
I'm sure you'll get heaps of answers for this.
Try:
$ for file in *.doc; do mswordview $file > ${file%.doc}.html; done
Change *.doc to a*.doc for all the ones starting with a.
Matthew
