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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to delete text from the end of a filename Post 302316677 by Monkey Dean on Friday 15th of May 2009 11:54:52 PM
Old 05-16-2009
Script to delete text from the end of a filename
Hi all,

I am trying to write a script that will delete a certain amount of text from the end of a filename.

For example.

HTML Code:
Input:

name of file (more text).pdf

Output:

name of file.pdf
So is it possible to write a script the deletes, in this example twelve (12) digits from the end of the filename whether it be numbers, text, spaces or symbols?


Thanks! Smilie
 

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ps2pdf

PS2PDF(1)							    Ghostscript 							 PS2PDF(1)

NAME

       ps2pdf - Convert PostScript to PDF using ghostscript
       ps2pdf12 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.2 (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible) using ghostscript
       ps2pdf13 - Convert PostScript to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible) using ghostscript

SYNOPSIS

       ps2pdf  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf12  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]
       ps2pdf13  [options...] {input.[e]ps|-} [output.pdf|-]

DESCRIPTION

       The ps2pdf scripts are work-alikes for nearly all the functionality (but not the user interface) of Adobe's Acrobat(TM) Distiller(TM) prod-
       uct: they convert PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

       If the output filename is not specified, the output is placed is a file of the same name with a '.pdf' extension. Either the input filename
       or the output filename can be '-' to request reading from stdin or writing to stdout, respectively, when used as a filter.

       The three scripts differ as follows:

       -      ps2pdf12 will always produce PDF 1.2 output (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf13 will always produce PDF 1.3 output (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible).

       -      ps2pdf  per se currently produces PDF 1.4 output.  However, this may change in the future. If you care about the compatibility level
	      of the output, use ps2pdf12 or ps2pdf13, or use the -dCompatibility=1.x switch in the command line.

       There are some limitations in ps2pdf's conversion. See the HTML documentation for more information. A large number of  Adobe  Distiller(TM)
       parameters  which  can  be  used to control the conversion are also documented there, including instructions for generating PDF/X and PDF/A
       documents.

OPTIONS

       The ps2pdf scripts use the same options as gs(1).

EXAMPLES

       Converting a figure.ps to figure.pdf:

	      ps2pdf figure.ps

       A conversion with more specifics:

	      ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress figure.ps proof.pdf

       Converting as part of a pipe:

	      make_report.pl -t ps | ps2pdf -dCompatibility=1.3 - - | lpr

SEE ALSO

       gs(1), ps2pdfwr(1),
       Ps2pdf.htm in the Ghostscript documentation

BUGS

       See http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ and the Usenet news group comp.lang.postscript.

VERSION

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.70.

AUTHOR

       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  This manpage by George Ferguson.

8.70								   31 July 2009 							 PS2PDF(1)
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