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what shell are you using?

On 4/22/06, Chris Norman <cnorman@rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi people,
> I want to change all the RTF files on my computer into TXT ones. I tried =
the
> following:
>
> for FILE in `locate *.rtf`
> do
> {
> unrtf --nopics --text '$FILE' >'$FILE.txt'
> rm -f $FILE
> }
> done
>
> But I have a problem, unrtf says there's an error opening the file, but i=
t
> won't give me a name, so I don't know if my variable is getting asigned
> properly, I just know that for every file, I get a "Can't open file" erro=
r.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers.
>
> PS: I would also like to avoid (if at all possible) the crap that unrtf p=
uts
> into the resulting text file, is this possible?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris Norman
> <!-- chris.norman4@ntlworld.com -->
>
>
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