Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:41:16 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PDF inventory software Message-ID: <d7195cff0906091041y2da0bcbeoded2fb35b17d1d69@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906091018k3a2f7527o640a526949596141@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470906081417x370edb66yb86fac71b462eab8@mail.gmail.com> <3D527043-AF88-4A26-8029-FD51159E6ABB@yahoo.fr> <b6c05a470906091018k3a2f7527o640a526949596141@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/6/9 Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>: > I'm trying to convert all PDF files in a directory to text using > "pdftotext". =A0I tried the following command: > > $ find *.pdf | xargs -0 pdftotext > Error: Couldn't open file 'Ross-JAMA-2007 (Prostate Screening Strategies)= .pdf > Sanda-JAMA-2009 (Prostate Cancer Treatment).pdf > ' > > Why is this not working? since xargs is expecting NUL for seperators you need th' -print0 primary with find --=20 --
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