Bash script for searching for specific terms found within PDFs in the current directory. Relies on the 'pdftotext' command line utility.

searchpdfs.sh

#!/bin/bash

#echo "This script will search PDFs in this directory. Enter search term:"
#read term
#echo "Results found for \"${term}\":"
#find . -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c "pdftotext '{}' - | grep --label='{}' --color --with-filename --line-number --ignore-case '${term}'" \;

# check for input arguments
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
	echo "You must enter a search term."
	exit 1
fi

echo "Searching PDFs in this directory for \"$1\"..."
find . -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c "pdftotext '{}' - | grep --label='{}' --color --with-filename --line-number --ignore-case '$1'" \;