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November 18, 2012 12:36
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Total the Number of Pages in All Pdf's in the Current Directory Recursively
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| find . -type f -iname "*pdf" | xargs -0 -d "\n" -n 1 pdfinfo 2> /dev/null | grep Pages | grep -Eo "[[:digit:]]+" | tr "\n" "+" | grep -Eo "[[:digit:]]+(\+[[:digit:]]+)+" | bc |
I was printing off a bunch of papers to read on a trip. Before just sending all of them off as one big print job I wanted to see how many pages of my quota that would actually take.
Oh yeah, pdfinfo sometimes spits out extra stuff when it has issues parsing a pdf completely. The answer, in my minimal works for me style testing, will always be the last line outputed.
4983541063155bb5583946cdc5863c5830f9da6a add case insensitive matching *pdf files, and removes pdfinfo's stderr complaints.
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... while this is awesome, it's also one of those "why would you ever need this" moments.