Posts Tagged ‘bash’
* Multiple Input with Single Input Apps
Posted on December 24th, 2008 by John. Filed under programming.
The few eBook formating tools I’ve posted all share one major flaw. They can only handle a single file as input. This is a problem when you want to run it on all or a number of different eBooks. If you are able to use Bash there is a simple way to run any single input command with multiple items.
This first method gets input from a single directory. This method will not go into subdirectories for input.
$ cd ~/Books/author $ ls -1 *.txt | while read file; do echo $file; ./fix_paragraphs_ebook_txt "$file"; ./remove_extra_whitespace_ebook_txt "$file"; done
This second method gets all files matching the given pattern and will handle subdirectories.
$ find ~/books/ -iname "*.txt" | while read file; do echo "$file"; dos2unix -ad "$file"; ./fix_end_ebook_txt "$file"; done
