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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to batch pdfjoin based on pdfgrep output Post 302606162 by nopposan on Friday 9th of March 2012 05:11:47 PM

03-09-2012

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printf is nifty

Thanks!

Here's my updated script. I haven't tested it yet as I don't have any practice material at the moment.

Code:

#!bin/bash
# This script is written for files that are named with the pattern
#pg_0001.pdf, with leading zeros.

a=1 #Sets the starting page. 'Could set with user input.
b=$(($a+1))#Sets the next page equal to one more than the starting page.

Filename="pg_"`printf "%04d" $a`".pdf" # This is the filename of the
#starting page. The printf command is used to format the number with
#up to three leading zeros.

until [ $b == 680 ]; do # This line sets the maximum pages to be
#considered for concatenation.
Filename2="pg_"`printf "%04d" $b`".pdf" # This is the filename of the
#next file to be considered for concatenation to the current file.
x=`pdfgrep -C 0 [0-9]\{7\} $Filename | head -n 1` # pdfgrep with
#option to, -C, capture 0 characters other than the 7 digits in the
#employee ID; this is piped to "head" in order to get just the first
#occurrence.
y=`pdfgrep -C 0 [0-9]\{7\} $Filename2 | head -n 1`

if [ "$x" == "$y" ]; then 
    pdfjoin --rotateoversize 'false' $Filename $Filename2 --outfile $Filename # If the employee ID's are equal, then the pdf files
#are concatenated into a new file, which is given the name of the
#first file that's added to.
    rm $Filename2 # If the file is concatenated to a previous
#file, it is removed.
else
cp $Filename Empl_ID_"$x".pdf # Replace page number name with name
#based on Empl_ID.
#rm $Filename # Uncomment to remove the original file.
Filename=$Filename2 # If no match is found and the file is not
#concatenated, then advance the current origination file, Filename, to
#the name of the non-concatenated/non-matching file.
fi

b=$(($b+1)) # Advance the page number of the next file, Filename2.

done

cp $Filename Empl_ID_"$x".pdf # Finally, when all else is done,
#replace page number name with name of last file with one based on
#Empl_ID.

#rm $Filename # Uncomment to remove the original last file.

exit

Last edited by Corona688; 03-09-2012 at 06:32 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please.

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fookb-plainx

fookb(1)							    FOOcrosoft								  fookb(1)

NAME

       fookb-plainx - Xkb state indicator without Window Maker support

SYNOPSIS

       fookb-plainx [options]

DESCRIPTION

       fookb  is  a  Xkb state indicator. It displays the icon corresponding to the number of Xkb locked group. You may use mouse-clicks to change
       Xkb locked group with mouse. Additionally, fookb can be configured to execute a program on changing group.

       fookb man page is based on WMMail.app man page. Program was written from scratch.

       To use fookb with the Window Maker Dock, simply drag the fookb icon to the Window Maker Dock (if fookb was compiled with Window Maker  sup-
       port).

OPTIONS

       NB! Command line parameters take precedence over config file or X resources!

       -icon1

       -icon2

       -icon3

       -icon4

       -iconboom

       -display

CONFIGURATION FILE (for libWUtil-enabled version)
       The  configuration  file consist of a single PropList dictionary, which in turn is composed of several PropList key-value pairs. The recog-
       nized keys is:

       Icon1 Filename (mandatory)
	      XPM file contains an icon (48x48) for 1st XKB group.

       Icon2 Filename (mandatory)
	      XPM file contains an icon (48x48) for 2nd XKB group.

       Icon3 Filename (mandatory)
	      XPM file contains an icon (48x48) for 3rd XKB group.

       Icon4 Filename (mandatory)
	      XPM file contains an icon (48x48) for 4th XKB group.

       IconBoom Filename (mandatory)
	      XPM file contains an icon (48x48) for "broken Xkb". Please look in BUGS section.

       Sound (Yes|No)
	      fookb will run command from "Command" value (see below), if this parameter is set to "Yes". You'll receive (non-fatal) error message
	      if this parameter is not defined. In any other case command will not be run.

       Command command_to_run
	      This command will be run if XKB locked group is changed and "Sound" is set to "Yes".

X resources
       NB! Parameters in PropList config file take precedence over X resources!

       fookb.icon1 Filename

       fookb.icon2 Filename

       fookb.icon3 Filename

       fookb.icon4 Filename

       fookb.iconBoom Filename

       fookb.sound Yes/No

       fookb.command Command

EXAMPLES

       Here is an example of configuration file.

       {
	 Icon1 = "/usr/local/share/fookb/icon1.xpm";
	 Icon2 = "/usr/local/share/fookb/icon2.xpm";
	 Icon3 = "/usr/local/share/fookb/icon3.xpm";
	 Icon4 = "/usr/local/share/fookb/icon4.xpm";
	 IconBoom = "/usr/local/share/fookb/crash.xpm";
	 Sound = "Yes";
	 Command = "/usr/bin/play /usr/local/share/fookb/click.au";
       }

       Here is an example of app-defaults file.

       fookb.icon1: /usr/local/share/fookb/icon1.xpm
       fookb.icon2: /usr/local/share/fookb/icon2.xpm
       fookb.icon3: /usr/local/share/fookb/icon3.xpm
       fookb.icon4: /usr/local/share/fookb/icon4.xpm
       fookb.iconBoom: /usr/local/share/fookb/crash.xpm
       fookb.sound: Yes
       fookb.command: /home/bgates/bin/playmssound

FILES

       ~/GNUstep/Defaults/FOOkb
	      fookb defaults (for Window Maker enabled version).

       ~/.fookb
	      fookb defaults (for Window Maker disabled version).

BUGS

       Sometimes  fookb  receives message about changing XKB group, but message.state.group does not point to any existing XKB group. In this case
       fookb will show IconBoom (from config file) picture.

       As far as I know the only way to look at this bug is to run vmware.

VERSION

       This man page is [hopefully] up-to-date for version 3.0 of fookb.

AUTHORS

       fookb is (c) 1998-2002 Alexey Vyskubov <alexey@mawhrin.net>.

       This manpage was written by Alexey Vyskubov <alexey@mawhrin.net>.

fookb								    10 Jan 2002 							  fookb(1)