bash script for converting ps to pdf

juergenkemeter · 10-10-2005, 03:08 PM

Hi!
I have a folder with many subfolders. Each of these subfolders contain several Postscript (.ps) - files. Now I want to convert the ps-files in all of these folders into pdf format, doing so with a Bash Shell Script.

This is what I got so far:

Code:

#! /bin/bash

echo `pwd`
DIR=`pwd`/Desktop/MFold_Output

cd $DIR
echo `pwd`

#ls -l $DIR
#echo $DIR

for dir in `ls`
do
    echo $dir;
    cd $dir
    echo `pwd`
    for file in `ls *.ps`
    do
	echo $file;
	
    done
cd ..
done

The parent folder is 'MFold_Output'. in the first for-loop, I go into this parent folder and list all subfolders. The second for-loop enteres each subfolder and lists its containing ps - files.
The Script is working so far.
My problem is how to actually convert the ps to pdf, eventuallly using xargs. It would also be good if the ps files wouln't be deleted.

Cheers,
Jurgen

david_ross · 10-10-2005, 03:45 PM

Couldn't you just use find?
find /path/to/base/dir -name "*.ps" -exec ps2pdf "{}" "{}.pdf" \;

tboerner · 10-10-2005, 04:06 PM

Hi Juergen,

what do you think about the following:

for ps in $(find . -name "*.ps");do
pdf="$(dirname "$ps")/$(basename "$ps" .ps).pdf"
ps2pdf "$ps" "$pdf"
done

Please try and let us know.

Cheers
TB

juergenkemeter · 10-10-2005, 04:35 PM

Hi all,
thanks for your answers. There are many ways to do this.
I found a solution today, using a regular expression:

Code:

    do
	file=${file//\.ps/}
#	echo $file
	ps2pdf ${file}.ps ${file}.pdf
    done

Jurgen