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  1. isurfer21 revised this gist Nov 19, 2024. No changes.
  2. isurfer21 created this gist Nov 19, 2024.
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    #!/bin/bash

    # Check if at least two arguments are provided (at least one source and one output)
    if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
    echo "Usage: ${0##*/} output.pdf source1.pdf [source2.pdf ... sourceN.pdf]"
    exit 1
    fi

    # The first argument is the output file
    output_file="$1"

    # The remaining arguments are the source PDF files
    shift # Remove the first argument from the list
    source_files="$@"

    # Run Ghostscript to merge the PDFs
    gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$output_file" $source_files

    # Check if the merge was successful
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Merged PDF successfully!"
    else
    echo "Error while merging PDFs!"
    exit 1
    fi