April 8, 2024

Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files with pdfinfo, grep and awk

Count the number of page(s) of a single pdf file1:

$ pdfinfo file.pdf | awk '/^Pages:/ {print $2}'

Count the number of pages of many pdf files and print each2:

$ for f in *.pdf; do pdfinfo "$f" | grep Pages | awk '{print $2}'; done

Count the number of pages of many pdf files and print the sum of all3:

$ for f in *.pdf; do pdfinfo "$f" | grep Pages | awk '{print $2}'; done | awk '{s+=$1}END{print s}'

Count the number of pages of many pdf files and print each with the name of the file4:

$ find -name "*.pdf" $1 | while read x; do pdfinfo "$x" | grep Pages | awk '{printf $2 }'; echo " $x"; done

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