[plug] text processing

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

I do file based stuff like that in this way, I don't know the specifics
of wvText and txt2html, so I won't try to involve them :)

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#!/bin/sh

DOC_DIR=doc/
HTML_DIR=html/

for FILE in `ls ${DOC_DIR}`
do
    # do whatever you want here 
    # ${FILE} will hold each file 
    # name in turn
    # eg: blah ${FILE} | blah > ${HTML_DIR}${FILE}
done
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That might get you on the right track.

Ryan

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:17, Sol wrote:
> Hi PLUG,
> 
> I have a bunch of M$ Word files that in a directory that I want to clean up 
> and output to another empty directory as HTML. I've been doing everything the 
> slow way using command line tools, but I'm sure that it can all be done with 
> a single command. I'm using wvText and txt2html. I want to pipe all the files 
> in the directory in order through wvText into the empty directory and then 
> pass everything in that directory through txt2html.
> 
> If I've got these files: one.doc, two.doc and three.doc in ../docs/ and want 
> them to end up as HTML in ../html/ as one.html, two.html and three.html, how 
> can I do this with a single command?
> 
> Thanks,
> sol