I have an awkward situation with pdftk
I have a file with filenames that I want to pass to pdftk as input
files.
according to the man page...
<input PDF files | - | PROMPT>
A list of the input PDF files. If you plan to combine these PDFs
(without using handles) then list files in the order you want
them combined. Use - to pass a single PDF into pdftk via stdin.
and thus, this doesn't work...
pdftk `cat "/mypath/to/I-A-files.txt"` cat output I-A.pdf verbose
fails on spaces within the paths/filenames in that file.
I have tried both escaping the spaces with \ and enclosing each path
within a double quote but neither works.
I have also tried (which fails)...
$ cat "/mypath/to/I-A-files.txt" | pdftk - cat output I-A.pdf verbose
Error: Failed to open PDF file:
-
Errors encountered. No output created.
Done. Input errors, so no output created.
sh-3.2$ ls -l
total 4440
-rw-r--r-- 1 craig administrative 10 2008-03-04 15:15 doc_toc.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 craig administrative 1898 2008-03-04 15:30 I-A-files.txt
Any suggestions on this?
Thanks
Craig
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