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Old 01-09-2009
Converting multiple latex files to pdf

Hi everybody! This is my first post. I am a student and I'm familiarizing myself with linux.

I have lots of directories each containing file called "zadaci.latex". I want to convert them to pdf's and rename them to <directory_name>.pdf.

I read alot on this forum and came up with this script:

#! /bin/bash

Code:
for file in *; do
    if [ -d $file ]; then
       latex $file/zadaci.latex
       dvipdf $file/zadaci.dvi
       mv $file/zadaci.dvi $file/$file.pdf
    fi
done

But latex command creates a file in directory where this script is and man page for latex is not very helpful.
Can somebody help with this?

And is there a solution that uses "find | xargs"?

Last edited by Element9; 01-09-2009 at 08:49 AM..
 

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CJK LaTeX batch commands(1)				      General Commands Manual				       CJK LaTeX batch commands(1)

NAME
bg5latex - Use LaTeX directly on a Big5 encoded .tex file bg5pdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on a Big5 encoded .tex file bg5+latex - Use LaTeX directly on a Big5+ encoded .tex file bg5+pdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on a Big5+ encoded .tex file cef5latex - Use LaTeX directly on a Big5 encoded .tex file containing CEF macros cef5pdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on a Big5 encoded .tex file containing CEF macros ceflatex - Use LaTeX directly on a .tex file containing CEF macros cefpdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on a .tex file containing CEF macros cefslatex - Use LaTeX directly on an SJIS encoded .tex file containing CEF macros cefspdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on an SJIS encoded .tex file containing CEF macros gbklatex - Use LaTeX directly on a GBK encoded .tex file gbkpdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on a GBK encoded .tex file sjislatex - Use LaTeX directly on an SJIS encoded .tex file sjispdflatex - Use pdfLaTeX directly on an SJIS encoded .tex file SYNOPSIS
bg5latex file.tex bg5pdflatex file.tex etc. DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the different *latex batch files that come with the CJK LaTeX macro. The *latex commands are shell scripts that will convert a (Big5(+), GBK or SJIS encoded) .tex file in a .cjk file using the respective *conv command resulting in a .cjk file, and will then run (pdf)latex on the .cjk file. If you use Big5+ encoding, then use bg5+latex or bg5+pdflatex. If you use CEF macro's in your Big5 or SJIS encoded file, use cef5latex or cefslatex resp. instead. If it's in plain ASCII, use ceflatex. If you use GNU/Emacs (>=20), you don't have to use any of these commands: just put the Lisp file "cjk-enc.el" in Emacs' load-path, load the library "cjk-enc" and run "M-x cjk-write-file" to create a .cjk file. Then process the .cjk file with latex or pdflatex. SEE ALSO
bg5conv(1), bg5+conv(1), cef5conv(1), cefconv(1), cefsconv(1), extconv(1), sjisconv(1), the CJK documentation files in /usr/share/doc/latex-cjk-common/. AVAILABILITY
The *latex scripts are part of the CJK macro package for LaTeX 2e available at the CTAN hosts and its mirrors, and available for Debian under latex-cjk-chinese and latex-cjk-japanese. AUTHOR
The programs mentioned under NAME were written by Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>. This manual page was written by Danai SAE-HAN <danai.sae-han@edpnet.be> for the Debian project. It is licensed under the GNU General Pub- lic License version 2 or higher, of which you can find a copy online at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt or on Debian systems under /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 (part of the "base-files" package). CJK Version 4.6.0 29-Jun-2006 CJK LaTeX batch commands(1)
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