On Oct 16, 2017, at 1:39 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > > The above is why I love *IX symlinks. What would be _really_ nice, IMO, > would be if your PDF generation process placed the actual document number > & title in the PDF information title section of the pdf file. So that I > could get it out of the "pdfinfo" program. It would make generation of the > symlinks simple. Something like: > > for i in *.pdf ; do pdfinfo "${i}" | ln -s "${i}" "$(awk '/^Title: / {print > substr($0,17);} | sed -r 's/ *.*? *//')" ; done
Yes, please. I tried doing something like this once, but the PDF information sections are inconsistent or incomplete. Everything’s easier to manage when you have consistent, reliable metadata. -- Pew, Curtis G [email protected] ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
