Hi Heinz, > What I did, is adding --text to grep > > .sy pdfinfo @$1 | grep --text "Page *size" | ..
`tr -d \\0' deletes ASCII NUL bytes, e.g. $ printf 'foo\0bar\n' | wc 1 1 8 $ printf 'foo\0bar\n' | tr -d \\0 | wc 1 1 7 $ -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy