More scripting help

[Chris Norman]

Bash.

Cheers,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Levi Campbell" <levicc00123 at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: More scripting help


> what shell are you using?
>
> On 4/22/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi people,
>> I want to change all the RTF files on my computer into TXT ones. I tried 
>> the
>> following:
>>
>> for FILE in `locate *.rtf`
>> do
>> {
>> unrtf --nopics --text '$FILE' >'$FILE.txt'
>> rm -f $FILE
>> }
>> done
>>
>> But I have a problem, unrtf says there's an error opening the file, but 
>> it
>> won't give me a name, so I don't know if my variable is getting asigned
>> properly, I just know that for every file, I get a "Can't open file" 
>> error.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> PS: I would also like to avoid (if at all possible) the crap that unrtf 
>> puts
>> into the resulting text file, is this possible?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris Norman
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>>
>>
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