Please don't take this the wrong way but you can achieve a huge amount with the opensource gui based pdfsam which is GPL'd I think, I use it all the time and love it. It takes care of a lot of your challenges without a single line of scritping :-)
Cheers MARK On 19 Feb, 10:28, [email protected] wrote: > >>>>> "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 > -- > Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT > gelato.unsw.edu.auhttp://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within > National ICT Australia > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs:http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
