On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Sean! > > Do any of the various `PDF` modules work to solve your page-counting quest? > My task was just a one-off, so I didn't look. If I were working on a more permanent program, I'd try to reduce external dependencies in that way. Similarly, I think exiftool has some option that would print *only* the metadata I wanted, but it would have taken longer to look it up than to just process the entire output. > I'll have to play around with your code a bit. Normally I would use > `.dir(test => /:i \.pdf / )` to pull out PDF files. > Oh yeah, that's a bit better. I'm not as familiar with the path API as I could be. Yesterday I noticed that there were some duplicate PDFs among some pairs of directories, so I identified them like so: .say for sort keys 'dir1'.IO.dir».basename ∩ 'dir2'.IO.dir».basename It's tempting to golf that down a bit, but it just a one-time need, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
