Please help me with this shell script

Ramiro Espinoza

Hi there,

I am trying to improve the coarse shell script I am using to use TTFAutohint in batch.

Currently I am doing:

#!/bin/sh
for file in /Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/*
do
  ttfautohint -v -f latn -n -w G "$file" "$file-HINTED.ttf" 
  mkdir /Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/Hinted-Fonts
  mv /Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/*-HINTED.ttf /Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/Hinted-Fonts

done

But my method for saving the output is very clumsy: I am renaming the files and then moving them to a new directory.
I would like to just save the output in the new directory, but all my attempts have failed.
Can anyone help me with this? 
Thanks in advance.
 

Khaled Hosny

Try this, to be use as script.sh path/to/font/dir/:

#!/bin/sh<br><br>pushd $1<br>mkdir -p Hinted-Fonts<br><br>for file in *<br>do<br>  ttfautohint -v -f latn -n -w G "$file" Hinted-Fonts/"$file" <br>done

Ramiro Espinoza

The fact is I like to run it double clicking a .command file because I don't have to type anything. Can you add the output path inside the script? I've tried several combination but I always get:

</code>The following error occurred while opening font `/Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/Hinted-Fonts//Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/LaskiSans-RegularItalic.ttf':
<span style="font-family: 'Alright Sans from Webtype', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande';"><pre class="CodeBlock"><code>&nbsp;No such file or directory

Obviously I can't get the dynamic output address right. 

Khaled Hosny

Just replace $1 with the path you want.

Ramiro Espinoza

Thanks! It works as a charm. I just modified the loop so it does not run on the folder:

for file in *.ttf

Hin-Tak Leung

You could test for an item being a file with 

if [ -f $file ] then
...
fi

 this allows your script to do ttc and dfont, for example. Items not ending with ttf.

Khaled Hosny

I left the wild card as it was in your original script. @Hin-Tak Leung is good as well, or you can use a list of extensions *.{ttf,ttc,dfont} etc. though I don’t think ttfautohint handles all of these anyway.