Using Regex groups in bash
- by AlexeyMK
Greetings,
I've got a directory with a list of pdfs in it:
file1.pdf, file2.pdf, morestuff.pdf ... etc.
I want to convert these pdfs to pngs, ie
file1.png, file2.png, morestuff.png ... etc.
The basic command is,
convert from to,
But I'm having trouble getting convert to rename to the same file name. The obvious 'I wish it worked this way' is
convert *.pdf *.png
But clearly that doesn't work. My thought process is that I should utilize regular expression grouping here, to say somethink like
convert (*).pdf %1.png
but that clearly isn't the right syntax. I'm wondering what the correct syntax is, and whether there's a better approach (that doesn't require jumping into perl or python) that I'm ignoring.
Thanks!
