Bash question

jim cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 22 05:50:42 UTC 2011


Thanks a lot everyone for helping me with this script. I'll try to
digest all these and put something together that does what I need.
Interesting to see all the variations that are possible. 
Much appreciated.
Jim
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 10:42 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
> 


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