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grep a directory of pdfs
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pdfgrep.sh
#!/bin/sh
for f in ${2}/.pdf; do
out=$(pdftotext $f - | grep -n $1)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo -e "${f}:\n${out}\n"
fi
done
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