Lets take your first code:
How will the system know how to rename anything dot rtf.rtf to anything dot rtf?
The only case this would work is when moving files to a directory e.g.
And so I let you conclude...
What you can do is write a script using find that searches all files with rtf.rtf extension to be replaced by .rtf...
Well, yes I would need first to find all ".rtf.rtf" files,
[then pipe the result - XX No]
then replace those found, with a simple .rtf extension.
So with
I'll find my files, but they are quite a few, and now how to change the duplicated extension for those files, without doing it manually for each?
PS: I'd prefer to leave them in the folders where they belong, if possible.
In Terminal I tried
to get rid of double rtf extensions ( which came about from some other process),
but this doesn't work.
I don't know why.
Remember two important things. First, that * does not get passed into programs, the shell handles that before mv even runs. Second, that mv works like
Imagine you have these three files in the folder:
...and then, mv gets run, with those exact arguments.
If it actually did what you asked, it would destroy most of them, leaving only one survivor named 'file3.rtf'. Fortunately it will refuse to rename multiple files, only move them.
Hi,
I am looking at writing the BLOB from database which is an rtf data to write to RTF file.
I am trying to use the RTFEditorKit for the same and was struck with the write API it provides.
write API takes the outstream and Document, all I have is Inputstream or bytestream from database -... (5 Replies)
Hi folks!
I need you help to discover what's the impact of a duplicated UID in an operating system. What's the meaning when someone put in different users the same UID? (3 Replies)
HI,
I have some csv files with mutiple extensions, I want to remove all the extensions and keep only the .csv extension.
anybody can suggest me how to do this.
source files
1.txt.csv.txt.csv.csv.txt.csv
2.csv.txt.csv.txt.csv.txt
target
1.csv
2.csv
--Wang (1 Reply)
Hi,
i don't know anything about PERL. Can anyone help me providing PERL scripts for
1. converting XLS to CSV (and vice-versa)
2. converting DOC/RTF to TXT
Thanks much
Prvn (1 Reply)
Hello all
i have server that needs to add the ability to convert rtf files to pdf
what you recommend me to use ( not open office please )
its spouse to process lots of files .
something i can wrap in code and use (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have the root id and the uid is always 0 for the root. Can i create another user say admin with the uid as 0? If so will it have the same privilege as that of user.
Will there be any effect while doing this?
lorcan (6 Replies)
Hi All
I want a method in shell script which will embed the exe file into rtf file si that the rtf file can be open in word and so my exe.
Actually what is happening in my system at present :
The report in my system is a self-extracting Zip file with filetype '.EXE'. Double clicking... (1 Reply)
:D mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
my dillemma is simple i have psion 5 mx wich is an epoc type machine not only does it only work on windows as far as I know but I have to convert the files (the usual stuff!) sometimes a humen error happens and the files that I want to transfer to the linux drive... (7 Replies)
Hi all
Is there any program which can convert PDF to word processor file ? If the PDF has smart quotes, bullet icons, copyright and trademark symbols, etc. what happens to them intext format? So ideally would like to conver into rtf or doc.
Thanks
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