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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Save files in directory as txt Post 302928539 by junior-helper on Friday 12th of December 2014 12:14:13 PM
Old 12-12-2014
You know you have just renamed a html file to a txt file, don't you?
One can hardly convert a html file to a txt file, I mean in a way that the html tags disappear (yes, you can parse it with sed, but it's not recommended)

What do you think about this (yes, it looks complicated, but it might be a way better solution)...

In the download folder;
(Make sure there are only files downloaded from link.txt, just in case...)

Code:
awk '/pdf/ {
    gsub(/^.*href = "|".*/,"",$0)
    print FILENAME,$0 >> "/tmp/tcode-pdf.txt"
    print "http://geneticslab.emory.edu/tests/"$0 >> "/tmp/list2.txt"
}' *

The above awk
  • extracts the "path" to the download link for the appropriate pdf file.
  • creates a file tcode-pdf.txt with testcode-pdfname pairs (later, this is used in the renaming process)
  • generates a download list
Code:
wget -x -i /tmp/list2.txt

This time, wget will download PDFs

Code:
awk '{ A[$1]=$2; next} END { for (i in A) print "mv \x27"A[i]"\x27",i".pdf" }' /tmp/tcode-pdf.txt | sh

This awk command will generate commands (and execute them) to rename the cryptic filename of the pdf to testcode.pdf
E.g. test-pdf.php?testid=4125 to MM123.pdf

Code:
for i in *.pdf; do
 pdftotext "$i"
done

convert pdfs to txt files.

I've experimented with one test-code and the output looks very viable Smilie

Last edited by junior-helper; 12-12-2014 at 06:33 PM.. Reason: substituted "pdftotext *.pdf" with a for loop
 

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PS_ADD_PDFLINK(3)							 1							 PS_ADD_PDFLINK(3)

ps_add_pdflink - Adds link to a page in a second pdf document

SYNOPSIS
bool ps_add_pdflink (resource $psdoc, float $llx, float $lly, float $urx, float $ury, string $filename, int $page, string $dest) DESCRIPTION
Places a hyperlink at the given position pointing to a second pdf document. Clicking on the link will branch to the document at the given page. The first page in a document has number 1. The hyperlink's source position is a rectangle with its lower left corner at ($llx, $lly) and its upper right corner at ($urx, $ury). The rectangle has by default a thin blue border. The note will not be visible if the document is printed or viewed but it will show up if the document is converted to pdf by either Acrobat Distillertm or Ghostview. PARAMETERS
o $psdoc - Resource identifier of the postscript file as returned by ps_new(3). o $llx - The x-coordinate of the lower left corner. o $lly - The y-coordinate of the lower left corner. o $urx - The x-coordinate of the upper right corner. o $ury - The y-coordinate of the upper right corner. o $filename - The name of the pdf document to be opened when clicking on this link. o $page - The page number of the destination pdf document o $dest - The parameter $dest determines how the document is being viewed. It can be fitpage, fitwidth, fitheight, or fitbbox. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. SEE ALSO
ps_add_launchlink(3), ps_add_locallink(3), ps_add_weblink(3). PHP Documentation Group PS_ADD_PDFLINK(3)
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