[Trisquel-users] Re : PDF compressor

[lcerf]

I like your script.  However, it could be improved, imho.  In "behavior"  
(commands preferably keep the input still, print a message when something  
unexpected happens, accept --help and -h), in features (processing several  
files at once looks useful, portability to other shells is nice, removing the  
output if gs's execution fails, e.g., if an input file does not exist) and in  
"style" (removing the .PDF or .pdf extension before appending  
"-compressed.pdf" looks nicer to me, 'ls' is not the simpler way to get the  
size, kind of useless variables, accessed with unnecessary curly brackets).   
See the attached file for "my" version of this script.  Feel free to  
distribute it under whatever free software license you want.

Again, do not get me wrong: I like your script.