On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:37 -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > OK - truly simplifying my issue to a point where someone should be able
> > to explain this to me...
> >
> > # my starting file
> > $ cat test-db.txt
> > A 1
> > B 2
> > C 3
> >
> > # this is what I want
> > $ cat test
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:14 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > OK - truly simplifying my issue to a point where someone should be able
> > to explain this to me...
> >
> > # my starting file
> > $ cat test-db.txt
> > A 1
> > B 2
> > C 3
> >
> > # this is what I want
> > $ cat tes
Craig White wrote:
> OK - truly simplifying my issue to a point where someone should be able
> to explain this to me...
>
> # my starting file
> $ cat test-db.txt
> A 1
> B 2
> C 3
>
> # this is what I want
> $ cat test-db.txt | cat test-db.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | sed ':a;N;$!
> ba;s/\n/ /g'
> A\ 1
Craig White wrote:
> OK - truly simplifying my issue to a point where someone should be able
> to explain this to me...
>
> # my starting file
> $ cat test-db.txt
> A 1
> B 2
> C 3
>
> # this is what I want
> $ cat test-db.txt | cat test-db.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | sed ':a;N;$!
> ba;s/\n/ /g'
> A\ 1
OK - truly simplifying my issue to a point where someone should be able
to explain this to me...
# my starting file
$ cat test-db.txt
A 1
B 2
C 3
# this is what I want
$ cat test-db.txt | cat test-db.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | sed ':a;N;$!
ba;s/\n/ /g'
A\ 1 B\ 2 C\ 3
# but if I aggregate the comman
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 22:31 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> $ mkdir temp; IFS=$'\n'; for file in `cat I-A-files.txt | sed
> 's/ /\ /g'`; do cp -v "$file" temp; done; cd temp; pdftk *.pdf cat
> output ../I-a.pdf verbose ; unset IFS
>
> This last one sort of worked...It's fixable/workable anyway.
>
>
pdftk isn't all that friendly towards scripting...I'll say that much.
I am going to work on this tomorrow...but to give you some feedback -
and I appreciate all of the thinking that you did on this..
$ cat I-A-files.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs cat | pdftk - output
I-A.pdf verbose
result, only
Ahh yeah...can't believe I didn't think of that. BTW, for pdftk, "cat"
is a command line option, not referring to the cat we know and love.
I think the final ver of the command would be:
cat I-A-files.txt |xargs -i pdftk "{}" cat output I-A.pdf verbose
Okay...my head hurts now :)
-Charles
E
Before you say that last attempt didn't work, I just saw another example
usage that gave me an idea:
"or (Using Wildcards):
pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf"
So, now this should do it:
mkdir temp; IFS=$'\n'; for file in `cat I-a-files.txt | sed 's/ /\ /g'`;
do cp -v "$file" temp; done; cd t
xargs has additional flexibility...try using the "replace string" parameter
So do:
cat list.txt | xargs -i cat "{}" | pdftk output -
The curly braces indicate where the input goes...in this case, between the
quotes. Should handle those pesky spaces for you.
Looks like this will dump a ton of pd
Hmm pdftk doesn't seem too friendly in regards to the order of the
arguments, it would be much easier if you could specify the input files
last on the command linehow does it tell the difference between the
filenames and the rest of the args (what if you have a file called
"output")??
Her
Again, that works but it fails because the PDF includes on the last file. As I
said, I don't think an xargs thing is going to work at all because as the man
page states...the '-' option is to pass only a single file via stdin.
Craig
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:10 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Ah t
Ah those darn spaces sure cause problems :) Give this a try:
$ cat I-A-files.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs cat | pdftk - output
I-a.pdf verbose
It works for my test case:
$ cat file.txt
file with spaces
some other file
$ cat "file with spaces"
This is the contents of a file with spaces
$ cat s
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 outpu
I just noticed that you said some of the filenames have spaces, so use
the -0 option, which should take care of that (man xargs for more info).
-Charles
Charles Jones wrote:
> Give this a try:
>
> cat /path/to/filenames_file.xt |xargs pdftk
>
-
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...
>
> A list of the input PDF files. If you plan to
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...
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. Us
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