add_doc_no.sh

#/bin/bash!

# Creates a PDF with overlaying something on the first page
# REQUIRES pdftk
# usage: you create an overlay one-pager PDF (such as "document_no1.pdf")
# Then you pass the original document and this document as script variables

pdftkpath=`which pdftk`

#checking if variables are all filled in

if [ "$2" = "" ]; then

	echo ""
	echo "+*******"
	echo "|"
	echo "| missing variable (2 required)"
	echo "|"
	echo "| usage: [scriptname] [original filename] [overlay filename] "
	echo "|"
	echo "+******"
	echo ""

else

PAGES=`$pdftkpath  $1 dump_data |grep NumberOfPages | awk '{print $2}'`

echo ""
echo "your document appears to be $PAGES pages long"
echo ""

$pdftkpath $2.pdf multibackground $1 output ~/temp.pdf

$pdftkpath A=~/temp.pdf B=$1 cat A1 B2-$PAGES output $1_final.pdf

rm ~/temp.pdf

echo ""
echo "----"
echo ""
echo "$1_final.pdf successfully created"

fi