joining multiple PDFs into one

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 04:14:03PM -0500, Russ wrote:
> Unless cat is aliased to do something else, like clobber on > and append on >>
> 
> "Chris F.A. Johnson" <chris-E7bvbYbpR6jSUeElwK9/Pw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Russell Reiter wrote:
> >
> >> Someone else had posted that: cat file1.pdf > out.pdf cat file2.pdf
> >>>> out.pdf cat file3.pdf>>out.pdf worked and they were able to see all
> >> three PDF pages. Before anyone jumps on this I know this is not the
> >> same as the following.
> >>
> >> cat file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf>out.pdf did not work, even though
> >> the man page says it should.
> >
> >cat file1.pdf > out.pdf; cat file2.pdf >> out.pdf; cat file3.pdf >> out.pdf
> >
> >    is exactly the same as
> >
> >cat file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf > out.pdf
> >
> >    Both do exactly what the man page says they should.
> >
> >    Whether is works with any particular type of file depends on the
> >    file structure, not on the cat command.
> >
> >-- 
> >    Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com/>
> >    Author:
> >    Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress)
> >    Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
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