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Ben Fossen
Ben Fossen

Reputation: 1007

Using ps2pdf correctly in a script?

I have a script below and I am having problems. I have several folders with PostScript file in them I want to batch convert to PDFs. I have done very little scripting in linux before but I think this is close. It is not quite working how I want it though. Any suggesting? or notice a mistake I made? I want the files to stay in the same location after they have been converted. Currently this converts the files but they get all put together in one folder.

I call the script like this: ./all.ps.to.pdf "/directory/to/process"

#!/bin/sh

STARTDIR=$1
if [ ! -d "$STARTDIR" ]; then
echo No starting directory $STARTDIR
exit 1
fi

find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps' -print | sed -e 's/.ps$//' |
xargs -l -i  ps2pdf \{}.ps

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2261

Answers (4)

Nehal J Wani
Nehal J Wani

Reputation: 16619

for i `find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps'` ; do ps2pdf $i $i.ps.pdf ; done

Upvotes: 0

Kurt Pfeifle
Kurt Pfeifle

Reputation: 90253

notice a mistake I made?

Yessss, Sir.

Your find command should be all in one line. Or, if you want to spread it over two lines, use \ as the line continuation sign (which must be the very last character on the first line without any blanks following it!).

That is...

  • either use

    find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps' -print | sed -e 's/.ps$//' | xargs -l -i  ps2pdf \{}.ps

  • or use

    find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps' -print | sed -e 's/.ps$//' | \
xargs -l -i  ps2pdf \{}.ps

  • or even use

    find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps' -print \
  | sed -e 's/.ps$//'              \
  | xargs -l -i  ps2pdf \{}.ps

(whichever you think looks "nicer" to your Bash reading eyes...).

Upvotes: 1

Robᵩ
Robᵩ

Reputation: 168636

Here is one solution:

find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps' -print |
while read filename
do
  ps2pdf ${filename} ${filename%.ps}.pdf
done

Upvotes: 2

nneonneo
nneonneo

Reputation: 179452

Just give it the PDF output filename explicitly:

find $STARTDIR -name '*.ps' -print | sed -e 's/.ps$//' | xargs -l -i  ps2pdf '{}.ps' '{}.pdf'

Upvotes: 2

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