intertwingly

sudo apt-get install pdftk

#/bin/bash
name=$(echo $1 | cut -d '.' -f 1)
pdftk $1 burst output ${name}-%03d.pdf

#/bin/bash
pdftk $1/*.pdf cat output $1.pdf

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name=$(echo $1 | cut -d '.' -f 1)

Might be better written as:

name=${1%.*}

That preserves everything up to the last dot.  You can use %% instead to strip off everything as far right as the first dot.

Please excuse me for jumping in.  I know that this matters little now we’re on machines with abundant resources.

Posted by Dominic Mitchell at 07:34

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[from drbyte] Sam Ruby: PDF Burst and Staple

I have occasion to deal with PDF scans that contain multiple documents, and splitting such a document is as easy as burst, create folder, drag and drop, and staple....

Excerpt from del.icio.us/network/anwarhit at 10:46

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Dominic: thanks!  Knowing the full range of options available is always goodness.  Continuing on that thought, as far as I can tell, the following:

name=$(echo $1 | cut -d '.' -f 1 | sed "s/ /-/g")

would require two lines using only bash features:

name=${1%.*}
name=${name/ /-/}

Or am I missing something obvious?

Posted by Sam Ruby at 11:22

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You’re not missing anything. Shell is that limited. (But this case is still simple enough that I’d prefer to stick to the builtin constructs.)

Posted by Aristoteles Pagaltzis at 13:38

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[from connolly] Sam Ruby: PDF Burst and Staple

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Excerpt from del.icio.us/network/pwkoolj at 09:48