>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Allen <[email protected]> writes:
Chris> I need to merge several sets of PDF files into a single PDF
Chris> file For example want to merge the files
spaces in file names are difficult to handle, especially when you have
multiple levels of quoting.
Chris> To make life easier I created the following shell script
Chris> #bash echo echo $0 echo $1.pdf echo \"$2\"* echo echo gs
Chris> -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$1.pdf
Chris> \"$2\"* echo gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
Chris> -sOutputFile=$1.pdf \"$2\"*
That needs to be "$2" withput the backslashes.
I'd actually want to do something like:
#!/bin/sh
output="$1"
shift
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$output" "$@"
and list all the filenames (properly quoted) on the command line to
the script, thus:
pdfmerge outfile.pdf "a .b.c .pdf" "foo bah .pdf"
etc
In general, I'd avoid file names with spaces or tabs in them. There
are too many badly-written scripts in the wild that will do the wrong
thing with them.
Peter C
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