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Bash Script: How to get file name/path

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Suppose I want to associate PPT files to be opened with a bash script that converts it to PDF then opens it with the approperiate PDF editor. How do I do that?

Conversion will be done with uniconv as I learnt from another question

uniconv -f pdf presentation.odt

I believe I have to change "presentation.odt" with the filename that triggered this script

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answered 2 Years ago howesale · Accepted Answer

Do you mean that the script will be called with (for example) presentation.odt as an argument? The argument is available as "$1" in the script (the double quotes are required if the file name contains characters like spaces which the shell would otherwise expand). You can construct the name of the PDF file by stripping away the .odt suffix: ${1%.odt}. Note that it's unoconv, not the unrelated uniconv.

#!/bin/sh

unoconv -f pdf "$1"

appropriate-pdf-editor "${1%.odt}.pdf"