All'occorrenza, io faccio qualcosa del genere:
codice:
cacao74@mediacenter:~$ pwd
/home/cacao74

cacao74@mediacenter:~$ ls ps
file1.ps  file2.ps  file3.ps

cacao74@mediacenter:~$ cd pdf

cacao74@mediacenter:~/pdf$ pwd
/home/cacao74/pdf

cacao74@mediacenter:~/pdf$ for file in /home/cacao74/ps/*.ps; do ps2pdf $file; done

cacao74@mediacenter:~/pdf$ ls -l
totale 288
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacao74 cacao74 90264 2006-07-15 22:41 file1.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacao74 cacao74 90264 2006-07-15 22:41 file2.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacao74 cacao74 90264 2006-07-15 22:41 file3.pdf
ciao