Use of pdftk

From	db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Use of pdftk
Date	2019-06-24 14:31 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<qeqms8$oua$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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. I can do it by typing in, e.g.

pdftk 'ab c.pdf' 'e fg.pdf' ... output z.pdf

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:

pdftk 'ab c.pdf' \
'e fg.pdf' \
...
output z.pdf

(the names afre all long, hence the \),
as a script. Chmod it and try to run it, and it says it can't find
those files. What is the difference, and how can I do it? I would
use ls to get a list and emacs the extra stuff into it. But how
can I get it to run?

-- 
Dieter Britz

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Use of pdftk db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 14:31 +0000
  Re: Use of pdftk Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-24 15:46 +0000
  Re: Use of pdftk Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-24 17:00 +0100
  Re: Use of pdftk Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-06-24 11:36 -0500
  Re: Use of pdftk Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-06-24 14:21 -0400
  Re: Use of pdftk Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-24 18:38 +0000
    Re: Use of pdftk au76666 <britz@chem.au.dk> - 2019-07-05 08:09 +0000
  Re: Use of pdftk Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2019-07-02 02:42 +0000

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