processing a large number of files

[Toby Fisher]

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I have a large number of pdfs that I need to process into text files.
>
> I know that if I feed file1.pdf to pdftotext, it will write file1.txt. So, I tried doing
> pdftotext *.pdf
> , but got the program's help message, instead of bash expanding the filenames, and a bunch of .txt files.
>
> Since my bash programming is next to nothing, is there a way to do what I want without a script?
>
> Could I somehow get bash to expand the wildcard, and feed the individual files to pdftotext for it to spit out txt files?

Well, you could try something like:

ls |grep pdf|pdftotext

But not having this program, I can't test it.

Good luck.

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