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bug#15723: A serious bug of nl
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Pádraig Brady |
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Subject: |
bug#15723: A serious bug of nl |
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Date: |
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:47:36 +0100 |
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On 10/26/2013 10:00 AM, Mohammad Etemaddar wrote:
> Hi,
> When I try to open a pdf file by nl, It changes the output characters.
I think what's happening here is that nl is just outputting the
_binary_ pdf file to the terminal. You would first need to convert
the pdf file to actual text before processing with nl.
Something like:
pdftotext file.pdf - | nl
thanks,
Pádraig.