For me, organizing into directories isn't that useful: my pattern is to open the directory in nautilus and then type a word like "unix" and then I see all of the documents with Unix in the title. And it would also break inter-document links, which I find useful.
On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 12:21 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 10:05:26 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >I use linux and for many years I have organized the IBM z/OS PDFs by > making > >symlinks to the actual file name where the symlink name is the actual > title > >of the PDF. > >That way, you can easily search for the title (symlink) to find a book, > but > >the inter-book links work. > > > >Here's the script that I use to set everything up. I just tried it with > >the latest zip download of pdfs and it works fine - the inter-document > >links work just fine, like before. > > > >#!/bin/sh > ># Make symlinks to all .pdf files in the current directory to names that > >match their Title: > >ls -1 *.pdf | while read f > >do > > echo "Examining: "$f > > title=$(pdfinfo "$f" | grep "Title:" | cut -c17- | tr -d '/\\:' | tr ' ' > >'_') > > if test -n "$title" -a ! -s "$title.pdf" ; then > > echo "link $title.pdf -> $f" > > ln -s "$f" "$title.pdf" > > fi > >done > > > Ah! Yours is 1/5 the size of mine. But I met the wish of @sas "to > organize the manuals [symlinks] into directories, according to the > layout on the index.html." Parsing PITA. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
