Istvan Gabor wrote:

I do know how to use for loops, I have problem with white spaces in file names. Can $i handle these files?

The most important thing is to remember to double quote filenames, like David Bolt and David Haller showed. If you forget that, the shell uses the spaces to break the name into several arguments. If you remember to quote, the shell treats the whole name as one argument. So no, $i can't handle it, but "$i" can handle it. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 09/03/10 09:19, Istvan Gabor wrote:

2010. március 8. 20:29 napon Anton Aylward írta:

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Istvan Gabor said the following on 03/08/2010 12:22 PM:

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Hello:

I would like to convert several ps files to pdf using pdftops. What would be the correct command line for batch processing if the ps filenames have white spaces and I have many files in the same directory? (For a single file with no white spaces in the name it would be "pdftops infile.ps outfile.pdf".)

Read the BASH (SH) man page.

Look under "for" and "list", as in

for name in ...list... do .... done

I do know how to use for loops, I have problem with white spaces in file names. Can $i handle these files?

The ABS comes up often, but it really is very good: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/quoting.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/loops1.html Specifically make sure you quote the variables correctly and the whitespace will cause no problem. Read some of the examples, and do some quick experimentation, and it'll all seem so simple. for i in *; do pdftops "$i" "${i/%pdf/ps}" done Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Monday 08 March 2010 20:01:20 David Haller wrote:

Hello,

On Mon, 08 Mar 2010, Istvan Gabor wrote:

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I would like to convert several ps files to pdf using pdftops. What would be the correct command line for batch processing if the ps filenames have white spaces and I have many files in the same directory?

for file in *.ps; do pstopdf "${file}" done

IIRC, the "outfile" is optional. You can use it explicitly with:

pstopdf "${file}" "${file//.ps/.pdf}" ## requires a POSIX shell,

That would replace any and all occurrences of ".ps" in a file name with ".pdf" . That may be okay if there is only one occurrence but, to make sure that only the extender is replaced, this would be a better choice: pstopdf "${file}" "${file%.ps}.pdf" Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3M3 32b openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hello, On Mon, 08 Mar 2010, David Bolt wrote:

On Monday 08 March 2010 20:01:20 David Haller wrote:

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IIRC, the "outfile" is optional. You can use it explicitly with:

pstopdf "${file}" "${file//.ps/.pdf}" ## requires a POSIX shell,

That would replace any and all occurrences of ".ps" in a file name with ".pdf" . That may be okay if there is only one occurrence but, to make sure that only the extender is replaced, this would be a better choice:

Darn. Too used to sane filenames.

pstopdf "${file}" "${file%.ps}.pdf"

Alternatively: pstopdf "${file}" "${file//%.ps/.pdf}" Thanks, -dnh -- Make sure that they know you know that they know you know. -- Mike Andrews on getting license keys by mail (from a certain Corp.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org