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Ps: although this is a useful technique, I also think a Makefile see above is a great solution for this kind of task. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Using wildcards to elegantly convert thousands of epub files to mobi Ask Question.

Asked 3 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 1k times. Improve this question. Dimitris Dimitris 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Please edit your question and i clarify your operating system; do you mean Linux or Unix Linux is not Unix? If Unix, what flavor? Are the two commands you show somehow linked? Will you always need to run them in pairs? Or are they two independent commands in which case Stephen's answer is what you need? That's not using it "elegantly", that's using it like copy in MsDOS, ignoring the way glob patterns and the command line interface work in Unix.

That's like insisting to use "gift" in English with its meaning from German. Why would you prefer mobi over opensource epub files? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Instead of reading lines of arguments from the standard input, it takes them from the command line. PS: you could find zmv is handy if you need to capture some portions of patterns for building commands.

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Learn more. Wildcard that executes command once for each match Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 11 months ago. Active 3 years, 5 months ago.

Viewed 2k times. Alternate title: How to loop without a loop or xargs. Still interested in other answers I accepted an answer that works for me thanks to Grisha Levit. Improve this question. Socowi Socowi Array programming languages like APL will automatically map a function over a higher-rank input, but I don't know of this feature in any shell. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Grisha Levit Grisha Levit 7, 2 2 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges.

Cool practicality prevails! That's a very clever and practical idea. I leave this question open for another day to gain more answers. Maybe there is a built-in solution, otherwise your answer will be accepted. This is probably more on topic at unix. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. To hide the error message, just redirect the stderr of tar to a bit bucket: tar Improve this answer. Thanks for your response.

I am trying with the following code but it is extracting all the files. Ankit: You should grep the --list , not the extract. I get the list of matching files from all the archives but have no clue how to use it to extract listed files from archive. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.

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