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Decrypt a directory of PDFs using bash, basename and qpdf
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Given a working directory and a folder c with encrypted PDFs, use qpdf, basename and a bash loop:

for f in c/*.pdf; do qpdf --password=<password> --decrypt $f "$(basename -s .pdf $f).pdf"; done
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