More scripting help

[Chris Norman]

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 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: More scripting help


> then you would do this as follows:
>
> for FILE in 'locate *.rtf'; do unrtf --nopics --text '$FILE'
>>'$FILE.txt' && rm -f $FILE; done
>
> On 4/22/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Bash.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris Norman
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Levi Campbell" <levicc00123 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:43 PM
>> Subject: Re: More scripting help
>>
>>
>> > what shell are you using?
>> >
>> > On 4/22/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >> Hi people,
>> >> I want to change all the RTF files on my computer into TXT ones. I 
>> >> tried
>> >> the
>> >> following:
>> >>
>> >> for FILE in `locate *.rtf`
>> >> do
>> >> {
>> >> unrtf --nopics --text '$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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