Todd Walton([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:41:31PM -0700:
> On 7/11/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > In tcsh, you use stuff like :t and :r to to that. So something like:
> >
> > foreach i ( /dir/full/of/files/* )
> > wvText $i ${i:t:r}.text
> > end
> >
> > ...does a fine job.
>
> I'll try that.
>
> > wvText $1 `basename $1 .doc`.text
>
> No go. When I create a shell script with this, and then run it on the
> files, it doesn't work. Both:
>
> $ myScript *
> $ ls |xargs myScript
>
> convert only the first file, and not the rest. This should work!
This happens because the script is only made to handle the first
argument. You need to incorporate a loop around the "core" command
that he showed you.
Take a look at John's post, too, if you haven't already.
The xargs command sends a bunch of args to the command at the same
time, it just breaks them down into smaller groups if you have a
very large number of them (500 if I remember Carl's lesson well
enough). If you did something like:
$ echo * | xargs -n 1 myScript
That might work. Not as nice as a for loop though.
Wade Curry
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