On 2011-10-14, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote: > > How about: > pdftotext <pdffile>|wc -w
curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ pdftotext doctorswife.pdf | wc -w 0 Oops. curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ pdftotext doctorswife.pdf - | wc -w 1415 I think you need the stdout hyphen; otherwise, with the file name argument missing, it just writes <pdffile.txt>. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnj9gle1.338.cu...@einstein.electron.org