[GTALUG] bash seq question

Russell Reiter rreiter91 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 17:36:44 EST 2017


On Feb 8, 2017 5:48 AM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:
>
> On 2017-02-06 01:36 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> > I had to resort to analogue to get the docs out. You remember, print the
> > numbers on the pages, then run them through for the data.
>
> Ah, that's annoying.
>
> Your script does seem to be a variant of this, which seems to work:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # from http://stackoverflow.com/a/9033109/377125
> input="$1"
> output="${1%.pdf}-header.pdf"
> pagenum=$(pdftk "$input" dump_data | grep "NumberOfPages" | cut -d":" -f2)
> enscript -L1 --header='||Page $% of $=' --output - < <(for i in $(seq
> "$pagenum"); do echo; done) | ps2pdf - | pdftk "$input" multistamp -
> output $output
>

Thanks, I'll try that out next time. Fooling around with Gimp layers shows
some promising results, but that's all GUI. It's not quite the magic bullet
I had going for me before.

Cheers
Russell

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