viewpdf script. view pdf files in terminal. help needed

leo2501 · 2008-04-20 20:16:43

hi! im creating a little script to view pdf files within midnight commander, but i get stuck, i don't know what's wrong with the script, seems like it doesn't find the file $1 basename, obviously im forgetting something...

the script:

#!/bin/bash
pdftohtml $1
BASE=$(basename $1 .pdf)
FILE1=$($BASE.html)
FILE2=$($BASE_ind.html)
FILE3=$($BASEs.html)
elinks $FILE1
rm $FILE1
rm $FiLE2
rm $FILE3

the output:

[aleyscha@aleyscha New]$ viewpdf UNIX-LINUX\ Shell\ Commands.pdf 
pdftohtml version 0.36 http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/, based on Xpdf version 3.00
Copyright 1999-2003 Gueorgui Ovtcharov and Rainer Dorsch
Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC

Usage: pdftohtml [options] <PDF-file> [<html-file> <xml-file>]
  -f <int>          : first page to convert
  -l <int>          : last page to convert
  -q                : don't print any messages or errors
  -h                : print usage information
  -help             : print usage information
  -p                : exchange .pdf links by .html
  -c                : generate complex document
  -i                : ignore images
  -noframes         : generate no frames
  -stdout           : use standard output
  -zoom <fp>        : zoom the pdf document (default 1.5)
  -xml              : output for XML post-processing
  -hidden           : output hidden text
  -nomerge          : do not merge paragraphs
  -enc <string>     : output text encoding name
  -dev <string>     : output device name for Ghostscript (png16m, jpeg etc)
  -v                : print copyright and version info
  -opw <string>     : owner password (for encrypted files)
  -upw <string>     : user password (for encrypted files)
  -nodrm            : override document DRM settings
basename: extra operand `Commands.pdf'
Try `basename --help' for more information.
/home/aleyscha/bin/viewpdf: line 4: .html: command not found
/home/aleyscha/bin/viewpdf: line 5: .html: command not found
/home/aleyscha/bin/viewpdf: line 6: .html: command not found
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
rm: missing operand
Try `rm --help' for more information.
Press any key to continue...

iBertus · 2008-04-20 20:32:06

Try

#!/bin/bash
#first, convert the pdf to html format.
pdftohtml $1
_base=`basename $1 .pdf`
_file1=${_base}.html
_file2=${_base}_ind.html
_file3=${_base}s.html
elinks ${_file1}
rm ${_file1} ${_file2} ${_file3}

edit: note that this really isn't optimized very well, but for a simple script it should work.

Last edited by iBertus (2008-04-20 20:33:01)

T-Dawg · 2008-04-20 22:14:34

You need to put double quotes around your variable, otherwise bash interrupts them separately:

pdftohtml "$1"

iBertus · 2008-04-21 00:18:17

T-Dawg wrote:

You need to put double quotes around your variable, otherwise bash interrupts them separately:
pdftohtml "$1"

Ah, it took me a minute to figure out why you would need this, but then dawned on me that multi-work filenames would break the script.

leo2501 · 2008-04-21 01:34:36

Thanks for the replyes!! but still doesnt work...

now it outputs:

(elinks reporting that the file ".html" doesn't exist) and when exiting elinks...

rm: cannot remove `.html': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `_ind.html': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove `s.html': No such file or directory

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#1 2008-04-20 20:16:43

viewpdf script. view pdf files in terminal. help needed

#2 2008-04-20 20:32:06

Re: viewpdf script. view pdf files in terminal. help needed

#3 2008-04-20 22:14:34

Re: viewpdf script. view pdf files in terminal. help needed

#4 2008-04-21 00:18:17

Re: viewpdf script. view pdf files in terminal. help needed

#5 2008-04-21 01:34:36

Re: viewpdf script. view pdf files in terminal. help needed

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