[Gloucs] bash question

[Matthew Phillips]

If you can put all the files on one line why not just

gs -o out.PDF 'ls *.pdf'

The ' are the ticks to the left of the number one on the keyboard, I
can't type them on the iPhone!

Case sensitive unix is your friend.

Matthew Phillips
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On 30 Nov 2010, at 21:06, Iain Calder <iain.calder at gmail.com> wrote:

> How about using xargs for the first requirement, e.g.:
>
> find *.pdf | xargs gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -q
> -sOutputFile=outputfile.pdf
>
>
> On 30 November 2010 20:43, Glyn Davies <glynd at walmore.com> wrote:
>
>> 'lo
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to do the following?
>>
>> I have a directory full of pdfs and I want to concatenate them into
>> one large pdf.
>>
>> ghostscript can do this but the command is basically:
>>
>> gs -o outputfile.pdf   infile1.pdf   infile2.pdf
>>
>> So a script is in order (there's more pdfs than I'd like to do by hand)
>>
>> Every time I try to tackle something like this I end up with a counter
>> (say n) and end up with the following problem:
>>
>> if n is 1, $n returns 1. I want to use n to cycle through the command
>> line arguments so I end up with $$n the idea being $1 is the first
>> command line argument so $n would return 1, leaving $1 which return
>> the 1st command line argument.
>>
>> Now, I know this is wrong and won't work but no matter what (), {}, %
>> and ` I put I can make it do what I want. How do you do it (assuming
>> you can).
>>
>> So two problems there but the first reintroduced me to the latter.
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards
>> Glyn Davies
>>
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