Join PDF files

pdfjoin.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]
then
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` <output file> <input files>"
  exit 1
fi

ofile=$1
if [[ -f $ofile ]]
then
  echo "Output file $ofile already exists; cowardly refusing to overwrite. Quitting!"
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` <output file> <input files>"
  exit 1
fi

shift

echo "Joining files:"
echo "--------------------------------"

for x in $*
do 
  echo $x
done

echo "--------------------------------"
echo -ne "to: " $ofile ...

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$ofile $*

echo DONE