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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search pdfs in command line Post 302705123 by Don Cragun on Monday 24th of September 2012 09:17:30 AM
Old 09-24-2012
If you create a file named grepPDF containing:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
for i in "$@"
do
        pdftotext "$i" - | grep 'search phrase' > grepPDF.$$ && \
                printf "\nFollowing lines are in %s:\n" "$i" && \
                cat grepPDF.$$
done
rm grepPDF.$$

and make it executable:
Code:
chmod +x grepPDF

and move it to a directory that is in your search path, then the find command:
Code:
find . -name '*.pdf' -exec grepPDF {} +

should do what you want.
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ecppl

ecppl(1)							Tntnet users guide							  ecppl(1)

NAME

       ecppl - language-extractor for ecpp

SYNOPSIS

       ecppl [-I dir] [-ln] [-o output-filename] ecpp-filename

DESCRIPTION

       Ecppl  is  the  language-extractor  for ecpp.  Ecpp - the template-language used with tntnet - supports internationalized applications.	In
       ecpp-templates a tag <i18n> changes the meaning of curly braces.  A phrase, which is enclosed in curly braces, can be translated.  At  run-
       time the phrase is looked up in a language-library.  This mode can be quit with the tag </i18n>.  Phrases must not have newlines or tabs.

       Every  phrase,  which  is  marked as translatable, is extracted with ecppl and written to standard output or to a specified output-filename
       line by line.

OPTIONS

       -I dir Search include-files in directory.  This option can be passed multiple times.  All specified directories are searched  in  turn  for
	      include-files.

       -l     Extract language-phrases (the default)

       -n     Extract non-language-phrases

       -o filename
	      Specify output filename

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tommi Makitalo <tommi@tntnet.org>.

SEE ALSO

       tntnet(1), ecpp(7), ecppll(1).

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