8/6 This is the same question I have asked before. I am trying to
do something to file in a directory, which the new filename is
actually based upon the old filename, something like
mv *.aaa *.bbb
With MOTD god's help, I got something like the following worked:
ls -1 *.ps | sed 's/\(.*\)[.]ps/ps2ascii \1.ps \1.txt;/'
However, it doesn't execute. Even if I put back-quote and/or
put eval in the front, it still doesn't execute:
eval `ls -1 *.ps | sed 's/\(.*\)[.]ps/ps2ascii \1.ps \1.txt;/'`
Any suggestion on how to make that line be executed? -kngharv
\_ umm, that seems like a really retarded approach. you should be
more careful about who you take advice from. why not this:
for f in *.ps; do ps2ascii $f.ps $f.txt; done
\_ because it doesn't work. ps2ascii would try to open
file.ps.ps. here is a way you can do it:
for f in *.ps; do ps2ascii $f `echo $f|sed 's/.ps$/.txt/'`; done
--aaron
\_ oops, forgot about the .ps.txt thing, and your above thing
is inconsistent with your cmdline. anyway, since OP is using
csh, it would be even easier to use the r modifier.
\_ that would make too much sense. the sed version has that classic
'job security' look to it. ;-)
\_ err.. do this for loop in a command line? --OP csh user
\- i would do something like this:
ls *ps |sed 's/[.]ps$//' |awk '{print "ps2acii " $1".ps" " "$1".txt" }'
and then pipe that to sh or to a file and then edit and
runthe file. obviously be as careful as you need to be.
this is a cleaner and safer way to do it if you are not a
shell wizard. --psb |
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