SImple way to execute command on list of files?

SImple way to execute command on list of files?

[Dominik Vogt]

Other than writing an alias or a function, is there a simple way
to call commands that take only one file argument multiple times?

In other words

  $ xpdf *.pdf
  $ ps2pdf a.ps b.ps c.ps

should be executed (semantically) as

  $ for F in *.pdf; do xpdf "$F"; done
  $ ps2pdf a.ps; ps2pdf b.ps; ps2pdf c.ps

I'm looking for a kind of extension for the command syntax.  Of
course I could write a function with that syntax for each command,
but is there a more general way where you can define a list of
commands to treat differently, say

  annoying_commands xpdf ps2pdf gv

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt

Re: SImple way to execute command on list of files?

[Anthony Heading]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, at 10:03 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> but is there a more general way where you can define a list of
> commands to treat differently, say
> 
>   annoying_commands xpdf ps2pdf gv
> 

something like this maybe?

wrap_annoying_command() { local i; for i in $~2; $1 $i }
annoying_commands() { local i; for i in $@; alias $i="noglob wrap_annoying_command $i" }
annoying_commands xpdf ps2pdf gv