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#!/bin/bash | |
# | |
# Copyright 2021-2023 Martin Goellnitz | |
# | |
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
# (at your option) any later version. | |
# | |
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
# GNU General Public License for more details. | |
# | |
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
# | |
function usage { | |
echo "Usage: $0 [-m] file1 [file2...]" 1>&2 | |
echo "" 1>&2 | |
echo " -m modify file time of target file by a few seconds to keep mega syncing working" 1>&2 | |
exit 1 | |
} | |
while getopts "m" opt ; do | |
case "${opt}" in | |
m) | |
MEGA=true | |
;; | |
*) | |
usage | |
;; | |
esac | |
done | |
shift $((OPTIND-1)) | |
if [ -z "$*" ] ; then | |
echo "Input filenames missing as parameters" | |
echo "" | |
usage | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
while [ ! -z "$*" ] ; do | |
INFILE="$1" | |
shift | |
if [ -f "$INFILE" ] ; then | |
BASE=$(dirname "$INFILE")/$(basename "$INFILE" .pdf) | |
ORIGINAL="${BASE}-orig.pdf" | |
if [ -z "$(uname -v|grep Darwin)" ] ; then | |
FILETIME=$(stat -c %Y -- "$INFILE") | |
else | |
FILETIME=$(stat -t %s -f %m -- "$INFILE") | |
fi | |
if [ ! -z "$MEGA" ] ; then | |
FILETIME=$[ 4 + $FILETIME ] | |
fi | |
# date -d '@'"$FILETIME" | |
mv "$INFILE" "$ORIGINAL" | |
# -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen | |
# -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress | |
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPrinted=false -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile="$INFILE" "$ORIGINAL" | |
touch --date="$(date -R --date='@'$FILETIME)" "$INFILE" | |
ORIGSIZE=$(stat -c %s -- "$ORIGINAL") | |
# NEWSIZE=$(stat -c %s -- "$INFILE") | |
NEWSIZE=$[ $(stat -c %s -- "$INFILE") + 2048 ] | |
# echo $INFILE: $ORIGSIZE $NEWSIZE | |
if [ "$ORIGSIZE" -le "$NEWSIZE" ] ; then | |
# echo "Compressed file $INFILE would not be smaller" | |
mv "$ORIGINAL" "$INFILE" | |
else | |
echo "$INFILE yields smaller file." | |
fi | |
else | |
echo "$INFILE is not a file. Ignoring." | |
fi | |
done |
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