Finished Find Addresses. Starte Remove and Sort scripts

Find_Missing_Addresses.sh

@@ -1,22 +1,23 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-
+#Get the folder with the pdf documents in it.
 while :
 do 
     echo -e "What is the directory with the pdfs?"
-    #read PDFDIR
-    PDFDIR=/home/btmccrea/Downloads/pdfs/
+    read PDFDIR
+    #PDFDIR=/home/btmccrea/Downloads/pdfs/
     if [ -d $PDFDIR ]; then
         break
         else 
         echo -e "Directory not found."
     fi
 done
+#Get the folder for the output file. 
 while :
 do 
     echo -e "What is the output directory for the pdf's with missing addresses?"
-    #read OUTPUTFOLDER
-    OUTPUTFOLDER=/home/btmccrea/Documents/output/
+    read OUTPUTFOLDER
+    #OUTPUTFOLDER=/home/btmccrea/Documents/output/
     if [ -d $PDFDIR ]; then
         break
         else 
@@ -24,19 +25,23 @@ do
     fi
 done
 
+#Create the csv and headers for the Addresses.  It is tab separated.
 touch "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv
-echo "File, User, Address" > "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv
+echo -e "File\tUser\tAddress" > "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv
 #FILES=$(ls $PDFDIR)
 cd $PDFDIR
 #echo $FILES
-#* represensts All files in the current directory
+#*.pdf represensts All files in the current directory with a pdf extention.
 for f in *.pdf ;
     do 
+        #pdftotext converst the file to text and places it in the file name temp
         pdftotext "$f" temp
+        #assigns the lines with relevant values to their variable
         USER=$(sed -n '13p' temp)
         ADDRESS1=$(sed -n '14p' temp)
         ADDRESS2=$(sed -n '15p' temp)
-        echo "$f, $USER, '$ADDRESS1 $ADDRESS2'" >> "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv
+        #Adds the row of variables to the csv.  >> appends to the file. \t represents tabs
+        echo -e "$f\t$USER\t$ADDRESS1 $ADDRESS2" >> "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv
     done
 exit