[plug] text processing

Alan Graham alan.graham at infonetsystems.com.au
Mon Dec 9 21:02:36 WST 2002 

Me again.

Like Ryan, I didn't know anything about wvText.  I've just checked it
out.  Did you know that there's also wvHtml?  If it doesn't screw with
the doc too much, this would make the script


for FILE in $(ls ../docs/*doc)
do
	wvHtml ../docs/$FILE ../html/${FILE%doc}html
done


Alan

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:53, Alan Graham wrote:
> The problem was an extra extraneous dollar sign.  From the command line;
> 
> [alan at laptop alan]$ mkdir test
> [alan at laptop alan]$ cd test
> [alan at laptop test]$ mkdir doc 
> [alan at laptop test]$ mkdir html
> [alan at laptop test]$ touch doc/one.doc
> [alan at laptop test]$ touch doc/two.doc
> [alan at laptop test]$ for file in $(ls ./doc);do
> > file_out=${file%doc}html
> > cp ./doc/$file ./html/$file_out    
> > done
> [alan at laptop test]$ ls -l html
> total 0
> -rw-rw-r--    1 alan     alan            0 Dec  9 20:50 one.html
> -rw-rw-r--    1 alan     alan            0 Dec  9 20:50 two.html
> 
> BTW, by convention,  the variables should be in upper case, ie, $FILE.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alan
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:42, Alan Graham wrote:
> > 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:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> > > <html>
> > > <head>
> > >   <title></title>
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > > 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/$file_out
> > > done
> > > 
> > > I can't remember if the output from straight ls looks like ../doc/one.doc or
> > > just one.doc.  The code assumes one.doc.  And I say again, I can't test this
> > > goes I don't have access to a real OS at this site.
> > > 
> > > Alan
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   </pre>
> > >   <blockquote type="cite">
> > >     <pre wrap="">-----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Sol [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
> > >  href="mailto:SMTP:sol at autonomon.net">SMTP:sol at autonomon.net</a>]
> > >  Sent:	Monday, 9 December 2002 16:24
> > > To:	<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
> > >  href="mailto:plug at plug.linux.org.au">plug at plug.linux.org.au</a>
> > >  Subject:	[plug] text processing
> > > 
> > > Hi PLUG,
> > > 
> > > I have a bunch of M$ 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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> > > </blockquote>
> > > <br>
> > > <br>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
> > > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>

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