Re: [Help-bash] script help please

[Pierre Gaston]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Randy <address@hidden> wrote:

>    I'm sorry this will seem like a simple question - but I've already
>    asked my more bash-literate friends.  We're stuck.
>    There is a command I use frequently:
>    find *.pdf -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "{}" - | grep --with-filename
>    --label="{}" --color "XXXX"' \;
>    (where "XXXX" is the text for which I am search PDF files.)
>    I tried to write a script, where I could simply pass-in ($1) the
>    string.  Could not make it work.
>    I would greatly appreciate help with this syntax.
>    Thank you,
>    Randy
>

pass it and the filename as arguments to sh:

find *.pdf -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "$2" - | grep --with-filename
--label="$2" --color -- "$1"'  _ "$1" {} \;