Batch convert ebooks qustion

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi,
First put all the epubs in a directory.
Then cd into that directory.
Then run detox. This is to remove spaces and other nasties from the 
filenames.
Install the detox package if required, then do
detox *
in the epub directory.
then do:
for i in $(ls *epub);do
textname=`basename $i .epub`
ebook-convert $i "$textname".txt
done
HTH, Willem

On Wed, 12 May 2021, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> So, I've a fun question. I bought a box set of ebooks that got delivered in 
> .epub format. I'd like to convert them to .txt, the ebooks are DRM free, but 
> I don't want to go through one at a time. So...
>
> Can I use ebook-convert, I can't do ebook-convert *.epub *.txt
>
>
> So how can I tell ebook-convert to take all the files of a certain type and 
> convert to my desired output type?
>
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