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<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Dominik Wombacher <dominik@wombacher.cc> --> <!-- --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 --> <p>I had to use Cups-PDF and "Print" bunch of Pages to Single PDF Files due to the fact that no Download as PDF was possible. But how to Merge tons ... <a class="read-more" href="/posts/merge-pdf-files-on-linux.html"> [read more]</a></p>

<!-- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Dominik Wombacher <dominik@wombacher.cc> --> <!-- --> <!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 --> <p>I had to use Cups-PDF and &quot;Print&quot; bunch of Pages to Single PDF Files due to the fact that no Download as PDF was possible. But how to Merge tons of files named as <strong>Pagetitle-job_id&lt;Number&gt;</strong> on Linux via command line in a fast and easy way?</p> <p>After some testing, <code>pdfunite</code> - included in <em>Poppler</em> and already installed on openSUSE Tumbleweed - did the job, but the result with <code>pdftk</code> - included in <em>Ghostscript</em> - was nearly identical and worked the same way.</p> <pre class="code text literal-block"> pdfunite $(ls -cr *.pdf) output.pdf </pre> <p>With <code>$()</code>, <code>ls</code> will executed and the results are added to the <code>pdfunite</code> command.</p> <p>All PDF Files in the same Folder will be merged to a single <strong>output.pdf</strong> File.</p> <p>The Parameter <code>-cr</code> sorts by creation time in reverse order.</p> <p>That was necessary for me because the Job IDs were from 36 till 223, all other parameter mixed up the order and the merged PDF wasn't as expected.</p>