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On 7/10/05, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a scripting question. I have files that are in one format,
> .doc, and I want to convert them to another format, .txt. I have a
> program called wvText that works like this:
>
> wvText somefile.doc somefile.txt
>
> 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?
Here is a very basic bash script that is intended to run from the
directory that has the files to be converted:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `ls *.doc`
do
#use cut to split $i into 2 fields, one before the dot and one after.
#take the first part (all except the extension) and use it as
a base for the txt file
BASE=`echo $i |cut -f1 -d.`
wvText $i ${BASE}.txt
done
Menachem
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