Todd Walton wrote:
>
> You must specify the name of the input file (duh), and the name of the
> output file that it will create. Well, I have a whole directory full
> of these doc files. The problem is, wvText doesn't let you just give
> the name of the file to be converted and then intelligently name the
> output "input" plus ".txt". That would make sense. wvText requires
> you to specify a name for the output file. How can I script this to
> do them all? Maybe something like:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> wvText $1 $1.txt
>
> But something is wrong with that. Perl would be interesting, too...
for i in *.doc; do wvText $i ${i%doc}.txt; done
If you used ${a/doc/txt} then you would suffer from adoc.doc ->
atxt.doc, not what you want. So we truncate the doc at the end, and
append a txt to turn adoc.doc -> adoc.txt.
The above snipped is bash and zsh friendly. sh will choke on it.
-john
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