Bash question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:19:05PM -0500, Bill Heagy wrote:
> I think something like
> 
> for i in `ls [0-9]* | cut -b1-7|uniq`;do foobar ${i}*pdf -o new${i}.pdf;done

The ${I}*pdf is essentially doing an ls.

> will work.  This assumes that all files starting with a digit are
> eligible: adjust as required.  I don't know the syntax for your
> pdftk command: adjust this as required also.  Beware using ">" for
> redirecting output though: that requires careful use of quotes.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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