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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting for ... do - syntax Post 302509203 by ctsgnb on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 09:23:32 AM
Old 03-30-2011
try

Code:
for f in *.@(pdf|PDF); do
...
done

---------- Post updated at 03:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:13 PM ----------

Watch out : if your file is Pdf or pDf you will miss it !

Consider the following examples :

Code:
# ls -1 ?.*
a.pdf
b.Pdf
c.pDF
d.PDF
e.dFp
# for i in *.[pPdDfF]??;do echo $i;done
a.pdf
b.Pdf
c.pDF
d.PDF
e.dFp
# for i in *.[pP][dD][fF];do echo $i;done
a.pdf
b.Pdf
c.pDF
d.PDF
# for i in *.@(pdf|PDF);do echo $i;done
a.pdf
d.PDF

In red , the most accurate matching... depending on your needs
 

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pdfseparate

pdfseparate(1)						      General Commands Manual						    pdfseparate(1)

NAME

       pdfseparate - Portable Document Format (PDF) page extractor

SYNOPSIS

       pdfseparate [options] PDF-file PDF-page-pattern

DESCRIPTION

       pdfseparate extract single pages from a Portable Document Format (PDF).

       pdfseparate  reads  the PDF file PDF-file, extracts one or more pages, and writes one PDF file for each page to PDF-page-pattern, PDF-page-
       pattern should contain %d

       The PDF-file should not be encrypted.

OPTIONS

       -f number
	      Specifies the first page to extract. If -f is omitted, extraction starts with page 1.

       -l number
	      Specifies the last page to extract. if -p is omitted, extraction ends with the last page.

       -v     Print copyright and version information.

       -h     Print usage information.	(-help and --help are equivalent.)

EXAMPLE

       pdfseparate sample.pdf sample-%d.pdf

       extracts all pages from sample.pdf, if i.e. sample.pdf has 3 pages, it produces

       sample-1.pdf, sample-2.pdf, sample-3.pdf

AUTHOR

       The pdfseparate software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC  and  copyright  2005-2011  The  Poppler  Developers  -
       http://poppler.freedesktop.org

SEE ALSO

       pdfunite(1),

								 15 September 2011						    pdfseparate(1)
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