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04-17-2014

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Code:

#!/bin/bash

declare -A max=()

# first, find highest.
for f in *REV*.PDF; do
        base=${f%_REV*}
        rev=${f##*_REV}
        rev=${rev%.PDF}

        [[ -z "${max[$base]}" ]] && max["$base"]=$rev
        (( rev > "${max[$base]}" )) && max["$base"]=$rev
done

for prefix in "${!max[@]}"; do
        for f in "$prefix"*; do
                rev=${f##*_REV}
                rev=${rev%.PDF}
                if (( rev < "${max[$prefix]}" )); then
                        echo mv "$f" /someplace/for/old/files
                fi
        done
done

Code:

mute@thedoctor:~/temp/kamezero$ touch {ONE,TWO,THREE}_REV{1..5}.PDF
mute@thedoctor:~/temp/kamezero$ ./script
mv THREE_REV1.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv THREE_REV2.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv THREE_REV3.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv THREE_REV4.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv ONE_REV1.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv ONE_REV2.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv ONE_REV3.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv ONE_REV4.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv TWO_REV1.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv TWO_REV2.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv TWO_REV3.PDF /someplace/for/old/files
mv TWO_REV4.PDF /someplace/for/old/files

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CAM::PDF::Decrypt(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    CAM::PDF::Decrypt(3pm)

NAME

       CAM::PDF::Decrypt - PDF security helper

LICENSE

       See CAM::PDF.

SYNOPSIS

	   use CAM::PDF;
	   my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($filename);

DESCRIPTION

       This class is used invisibly by CAM::PDF whenever it detects that a document is encrypted.  See new(), getPrefs() and setPrefs() in that
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FUNCTIONS

       $pkg->new($pdf, $ownerpass, $userpass, $prompt)
	   Create and validate a new decryption object.  If this fails, it will set $CAM::PDF::errstr and return undef.

	   $prompt is a boolean that says whether the user should be prompted for a password on the command line.

       $self->decode_permissions($field)
	   Given a binary encoded permissions string from a PDF document, return the four individual boolean fields as an array:

	     print boolean
	     modify boolean
	     copy boolean
	     add boolean

       $self->encode_permissions($print, $modify, $copy, $add)
	   Given four booleans, pack them into a single field in the PDF style that decode_permissions can understand.	Returns that scalar.

       $self->set_passwords($doc, $ownerpass, $userpass)
       $self->set_passwords($doc, $ownerpass, $userpass, $permissions)
	   Change the PDF passwords to the specified values.  When the PDF is output, it will be encrypted with the new passwords.

	   PERMISSIONS is an optional scalar of the form that decode_permissions can understand.  If not specified, the existing values will be
	   retained.

	   Note: we only support writing using encryption version 1, even though we can read encryption version 2 as well.

       $self->encrypt($doc, $string)
	   Encrypt the scalar using the passwords previously specified.

       $self->decrypt($doc, $string)
	   Decrypt the scalar using the passwords previously specified.

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