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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying all files of type "pdf" Post 3856 by ghoti on Thursday 12th of July 2001 11:40:38 AM
Old 07-12-2001
cp /sourcepath/sourcedir/*.pdf /destpath/destdir/

should do it as well without the need for pipes, paths or even a second command.

Apologies for the delay in getting back,
-gHoTi
 

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PODOFOINCREMENTALUPDATES(1)				     podofoincrementalupdates				       PODOFOINCREMENTALUPDATES(1)

NAME
podofoincrementalupdates - Provides information about incremental updates in PDF files SYNOPSIS
podofoincrementalupdates [-e N out.pdf] file.pdf DESCRIPTION
podofoincrementalupdates is one of the command line tools from the PoDoFo library that provide several useful operations to work with PDF files. It can print information of incremental updates to file.pdf. By default the number of incremental updates will be printed. OPTIONS
-e N Extract the Nth update out.pdf Output PDF file. file.pdf Input PDF file. SEE ALSO
podofobox(1), podofocountpages(1), podofocrop(1), podofoencrypt(1), podofoimg2pdf(1), podofoimgextract(1), podofoimpose(1), podofomerge(1), podofopages(1), podofopdfinfo(1), podofotxt2pdf(1), podofotxtextract(1), podofouncompress(1), podofoxmp(1) AUTHORS
PoDoFo is written by Dominik Seichter <domseichter@web.de> and others. This manual page was written by Oleksandr Moskalenko <malex@debian.org> for the Debian Project (but may be used by others). PoDoFo 2010-12-09 PODOFOINCREMENTALUPDATES(1)
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