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Split pdf into multiple files
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pdf_split.sh
#!/usr/bin/sh
page_count=`pdfinfo $1 | grep Pages: | cut -d':' -f2 | tr -d ' '`
pages_per=10
i=1
while [[ $i -le $page_count ]]; do
echo $(( $i + 10 ))
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -dFirstPage=$i -dLastPage=$(( $i + $pages_per )) -sOutputFile=output2$i.pdf $1
i=$(( $i + $pages_per ))
done
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