On my Ubuntu I have thousands of files in a couple hundred directories. I'm trying to convert the pdf's to jpg's.
I used this command in terminal:
for fname in *.pdf; do convert $fname ${fname%.pdf}.jpg; done
It works great but the problem is I have to run this in terminal for each folder/directory so it's time consuming.
Is it possible to covert all the pdf's in the sub directories from the root directory at once in terminal?
Thanks for your help
Hi,
use find - you can traverse your directories with it, and even start your conversion per each file found. There are more efficient methods, but this depends on the amount of the files you have. Have a look at the manual page of find(1), but one way to accomplish your target would be something like:
The {} marks the filename found, and because of the shell the braces have to be escaped, as well as the command-ending semicolon.
There are also other, more CPU-friendly methods, but this may serve as a one-time solution.
BR,
pen
EDIT: Umm, I just noticed you want the change the filename extention for good - my solution leaves file names as foo.jpg.pdf... With find, this would work:
Code:
find root_of_pdfs -name \*.pdf | while read fname; do convert $fname ${fname%.pdf}.jpg; done
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pstopdf
pstopdf(1) BSD General Commands Manual pstopdf(1)NAME
pstopdf -- convert PostScript input into a PDF document.
SYNOPSIS
pstopdf [inputfile] [-o outname] [-l] [-p] [-i]
DESCRIPTION
pstopdf is a tool to convert PostScript input data into a PDF document. The input data may come from a file or may be read from stdin. The
PDF document is always written to a file. The name of the output PDF file is derived from the name of the input file or may be explicitly
named using the -o option.
Flags:
-o outname
The name of the output file to create. If an explicit file name is not supplied, the output file will be created in the current
directory and named foo.pdf for an input file named foo.ps
-i Reads from stdin rather than a named input file. If the output file is not explicitly named and the input data comes from stdin the
named output file will be stdin.pdf
-l Specifies that any messages generated during file conversion be written to a log file. For an output file named foo.pdf the generated
log file is foo.pdf.log rather than generated to stdout. If there are no messages, the log file is not generated.
-p Generates a simple progress message to stdout at the end of each page. Because conversion of complex or lengthy PostScript input can
take time, it is sometimes useful to see that progress is being made. Progress messages are always written to stdout even when the -l
(log file) option is specified.
EXAMPLES
pstopdf inputfile.ps Creates a PDF file named inputfile.pdf from the PostScript data in the input file inputfile.ps
pstopdf -i -o outputfilename Creates a PDF file named outputfilename from the PostScript data read from stdin.
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