That doesn't seem to work. I quoted the part of the man page that the '-' is used to pass only a single PDF into pdftk via stdin and thus the xargs thing seems not to fly.
$ cat I-A-files.txt | xargs -0 pdftk cat output I-A.pdf verbose Error: No input files. Exiting. Errors encountered. No output created. Done. Input errors, so no output created. Thanks Craig On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:24 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: > Give this a try: > > cat /path/to/filenames_file.xt |xargs pdftk > > -Charles > > Craig White wrote: > > I have an awkward situation with pdftk > > > > I have a file with filenames that I want to pass to pdftk as input > > files. > > > > according to the man page... > > <input PDF files | - | PROMPT> > > A list of the input PDF files. If you plan to combine these PDFs > > (without using handles) then list files in the order you want > > them combined. Use - to pass a single PDF into pdftk via stdin. > > > > and thus, this doesn't work... > > > > pdftk `cat "/mypath/to/I-A-files.txt"` cat output I-A.pdf verbose > > > > fails on spaces within the paths/filenames in that file. > > > > I have tried both escaping the spaces with \ and enclosing each path > > within a double quote but neither works. > > > > I have also tried (which fails)... > > > > $ cat "/mypath/to/I-A-files.txt" | pdftk - cat output I-A.pdf verbose > > Error: Failed to open PDF file: > > - > > Errors encountered. No output created. > > Done. Input errors, so no output created. > > sh-3.2$ ls -l > > total 4440 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 craig administrative 10 2008-03-04 15:15 doc_toc.html > > -rw-r--r-- 1 craig administrative 1898 2008-03-04 15:30 I-A-files.txt > > > > Any suggestions on this? > > > > T > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
