Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:30:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, olivares14031@gmail.com Subject: Re: converting mpost(ed) files individually to eps Message-ID: <201206190130.q5J1UQ1C015381@mail.r-bonomi.com> In-Reply-To: <201206190110.q5J1AorD015312@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:50:01 -0500 > > From: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> > > Subject: converting mpost(ed) files individually to eps > > > > Dear folks, > > > > I am taking a plunge to learning a little bit of metapost. I have > > found examples page using google. > > > > http://www.tlhiv.org/MetaPost/examples/examples.html > > > > I want to convert output files individually to eps. > > > > I can only convert the first one output say file.1 to file.eps, but > > when there are more files, ie, file.2, ..., file.10, all the files > > between .2 and .10 do not get converted/saved to *.eps extension. > > Correct. The script you showd processes a _single_ argument only. > Use a 'for loop' to handle multiple files, something like -- > for thisfile in file.* do > `mpost-eps $thisfile > end > > > > > [[ sneck -- copy of script itself ]] > > > > I run the script > > $ ./mpost-eps file > > without *.mp extension. but only one gets converted. I don't know > > enough shell programming to do something like > > for i in file.i do > > $GS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$1.eps $1.i > > You were *close*. what you wanted is (assuming MPOST and GS are defined: > for file in {{list or wildcard}} do > $MPOST $file > $GS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$file.eps $file.1 > end I may have understood. if it is MPOST that is producing the multiple files, then you want: $MPOST for file in file.* do $GS -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=$file.eps $file end This will produce a series of files named file.1.eps, file.2.eps, etc.
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