William Sutton wrote:
Maybe it's time to switch to Perl :)#----- my @file = map { chomp($_); $_; } `ls -1rt /path/to/files`; foreach my $file (@files) { next unless -f "/path/to/files/$file"; `cp /path/to/file/$file /tmp/date`; # your convert code here # and, if you want, uncomment the next line # unlink ("/path/to/files/$file"); }
The problem here is that he's not converting multiple files ito multiple files, but rather multiple files into one file, so I'm not sure this approach will help any. Perhaps convert batches of as many files as will fit in one command line, then seam the files together? Michael Tharp -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
