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From: Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Use of pdftk
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 02:42:40 -0000 (UTC)
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db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:
> I have a large number of pdf files I want to chain together into
> a single file. They come from Windows and the names all have spaces
> in them. 
> 
> This has worked for me with a smaller set, but for this one it's
> so many that I want to do it using a script. I tried something like
> this:

Get your script to disregard spaces (etc) when reading in argument
lines by inserting this line near the top of it

IFS="$(printf '\n\t')"

That will then consider a tab or a newline ONLY as separators. 

Then you can read in a whole list of filenames without the spaces killing
your input arguments.

Regards,

Jack

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