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Introduction

Program FORALL_DO executes "sub_script" on multiple files.
Program FORALL_DO replaces the following UNIX-code: 

  for file in `ls *subst_1*`; do                
   sub_script $file                             
  done

Usage:

                                                        
  forall_do [options] sub_script  subst_1  [subst_2]

Command line options

Following options are understood:

--ext =  Only search for filenames ending with subst_1
--help =  Write an information message
--test =  Do not execute sub_script, only show what is going to be done
     
sub_script =  Executable script or program which shall operate on all files selected by subst_1
subst_1 =  Select the files in current directory having the expression subst_1 in their file names.
subst_2 =  Expression which will replace subst_1 in the names of the created data files

Example:

Rename all files with extension .whe into .wheel: 

                                        
  forall_do --ext mv .whe .wheel

Translate all PostScript files into PDF-files: 

                                        
  forall_do --ext ps2pdf .ps .psd