Re: [LUG] Bash question

[Gemma Peter <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Stone wrote:

> I've written a script in bash to convert .eps files to .pdf (yay)
>
> However I want to be able to invoke this via cron.. but only if a (or
> many) file(s) excist in a given directory... and if not, just quit...
>
> How would people go about this ? (and please no mention of perl or other
> programming languages)
>
> All thoughts on this apprectiated...
>
> Neil


cd $DIRECTORY
for I in *.eps;
do
  #what you want to do to each file
  #for example print its name
  echo "$I";
done;


Gem

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