[plug] text processing

Mon Dec 9 20:42:41 WST 2002

Sorry bout that.  There were two things wrong with my solution;
extraneous $ signs, 

for $file in $(ls ../docs/*doc)

should be
for file in $(ls ../docs/*doc)

and bash doesn't support 

file_out=${$file%doc}html

which is valid in korn shell.  Sorry.  I'll have a quick look to see if
I can find out how to do it in bash.

Alan

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 17:39, Sol wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [plug] text processing
> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:38:18 +0800
> From: Sol <sol at autonomon.net>
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> 
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> Thanks for your replies Ryan and Graham,<br>
> <br>
> I've tried both out with no luck yet. Here's a what I did and what went
>  wrong:<br>
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------<br> #First
>  with Ryan's tip<br>
> <br>
> #!/bin/sh<br>
> <br>
> DOC_DIR=/home/sol/bswa_publications/DOC/<br>
> HTML_DIR=/home/sol/bswa_publications/HTML/<br>
> <br>
> for FILE in `ls ${DOC_DIR}`<br>
> do<br>
>     wvText  ${FILE} | txt2html >
>  ${HTML_DIR}${FILE}<br> done<br>
> <br>
> ## What I got here was a bunch of files in ../HTML/ with exactly the same
> names as in ../DOC/. They contained the bare minimum amount of HTML elements
> and none of the text like this:<br>
> <br>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"><br>
> <HTML><br>
> <HEAD><br>
> <TITLE></TITLE><br>
> <META NAME="generator" CONTENT="txt2html v1.28"><br>
> </HEAD><br>
> <BODY><br>
> <P><br>
> Usage: /usr/bin/wvText &lt;word document&gt; &lt;text output
> file&gt;<br>
> <br>
> </BODY><br>
> </HTML><br>
> <br>
> I've tried doing "wvText < ${FILE}" which gives me a different error but
> passed no files so I guess that's a backward step.<br>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> <br>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
> #Now Graham's<br>
> <br>
> #!/bin/ksh<br>
> <br>
> for $file in $(/home/sol/bswa_publications/DOC/*doc)<br>
> do<br>
>     $file_out=${$file%doc}html<br>
>     wvText < /home/sol/bswa_publications/DOC.$file |
>  txt2html > /home/sol/bswa_publications/$file_out<br> done<br>
> <br>
> ##I got the error<br>
> DOCtoHTML.ksh: `$file': not a valid identifier<br>
> <br>
> I don't know any ksh at all so I don't even know which $file is causing the
> problem.<br>
> -----------------------------------------------------------<br>
> It's interesting to see different solutions for the same simple problem.
> Ta.<br>
> <br>
> sol<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Graham, Alan A. wrote:<br>
> <blockquote type="cite"
>  cite="mid41D499B16A81D4118D2500805F0DD05C084E5AE0 at perm03.woodside.com.au">
>   <pre wrap="">!#/bin/ksh
> # I can't test this cos I'm on an NT box :-(
> # I know korn shell, but I understand bash can run ksh scripts
> #
> 
> for $file in $(ls ../docs/*doc)
> do
> 	$file_out=${$file%doc}html
> 	wvText < ../docs.$file | txt2html > ../html/$file_out
> done
> 
> I can't remember if the output from straight ls looks like ../doc/one.doc or
> just one.doc.  The code assumes one.doc.  And I say again, I can't test this
> goes I don't have access to a real OS at this site.
> 
> Alan
> 
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>     <pre wrap="">-----Original Message-----
> From:	Sol [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
>  href="mailto:SMTP:sol at autonomon.net">SMTP:sol at autonomon.net</a>]
>  Sent:	Monday, 9 December 2002 16:24
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>  href="mailto:plug at plug.linux.org.au">plug at plug.linux.org.au</a>
>  Subject:	[plug] text processing
> 
> Hi PLUG,
> 
> I have a bunch of M$ 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
> 
> 
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