#!/bin/bash while : do echo -e "What is the directory with the pdfs?" #read PDFDIR PDFDIR=/home/btmccrea/Downloads/pdfs/ if [ -d $PDFDIR ]; then break else echo -e "Directory not found." fi done while : do echo -e "What is the output directory for the pdf's with missing addresses?" #read OUTPUTFOLDER OUTPUTFOLDER=/home/btmccrea/Documents/output/ if [ -d $PDFDIR ]; then break else echo -e "Directory not found." fi done touch "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv echo "File, User, Address" > "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv #FILES=$(ls $PDFDIR) cd $PDFDIR #echo $FILES #* represensts All files in the current directory for f in *.pdf ; do pdftotext "$f" temp USER=$(sed -n '13p' temp) ADDRESS1=$(sed -n '14p' temp) ADDRESS2=$(sed -n '15p' temp) echo "$f, $USER, '$ADDRESS1 $ADDRESS2'" >> "$OUTPUTFOLDER"Addresses.csv done exit