On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 10:05:26 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: >I use linux and for many years I have organized the IBM z/OS PDFs by making >symlinks to the actual file name where the symlink name is the actual title >of the PDF. >That way, you can easily search for the title (symlink) to find a book, but >the inter-book links work. > >Here's the script that I use to set everything up. I just tried it with >the latest zip download of pdfs and it works fine - the inter-document >links work just fine, like before. > >#!/bin/sh ># Make symlinks to all .pdf files in the current directory to names that >match their Title: >ls -1 *.pdf | while read f >do > echo "Examining: "$f > title=$(pdfinfo "$f" | grep "Title:" | cut -c17- | tr -d '/\\:' | tr ' ' >'_') > if test -n "$title" -a ! -s "$title.pdf" ; then > echo "link $title.pdf -> $f" > ln -s "$f" "$title.pdf" > fi >done > Ah! Yours is 1/5 the size of mine. But I met the wish of @sas "to organize the manuals [symlinks] into directories, according to the layout on the index.html." Parsing PITA.
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