joining multiple PDFs into one

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Nov 15 19:32:44 UTC 2011


| From: Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

| > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Thomas Milne
| > <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
| >> I tried cat file1 file2 file2 > file, but that didn't work, I only got
| >> the last page.

| It's his example which doesn't work. You don't know what kernel, what
| shell or anything else about the environment he's using, yet you know
| that your cat command is absolutely able to run the way you say it
| does. Oh brave new world which has such people in it.

He (Ian) just knows what the cat(1) manpage says.  Any POSIX system
that didn't match that manpage is truly and obviously broken.
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