Need a script to process some files

Jason jkenner@mindspring.com
Sat, 30 Sep 2000 15:35:05 -0700


Rick Rosinski wrote:
> 
> I am following the Font-HOWTO to set up True Type font support
> for StarOffice 5.2.  Everything was working out fine until I ran
> into the step where I need to do "touch font.pfb" for each *.ttf file.
> I have too many fonts to process them individually.  Does anybody
> have a script handy that will read a directory of *.ttf and run
> an external command that will run "touch <whater>.pfb", basically
> creating empty files - all with .pfb as the extension instead of .ttf?
> This would really be helpful, as I will then be able to print the newly
> installed ttf files with StarOffice.

for FONTFILENAME in `find . -iname "*ttf"`
do
	touch `echo $FONTFILENAME | sed s/".ttf"/".pfb"/`
done

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