>for i in grep -E '^htt.*\.pdf$' pdflist;do foo=$(basename $i .pdf);wget $i; pdftotext -r 300 $foo; done
No need for the basename strip as the shell can handle string parsing, so:
for i in grep -E '^htt.*\.pdf$' pdflist;do wget $i; pdftotext -r 300 ${i%.pdf}; done
is equivalent.
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