Remove cover pages from PDFs and make links to sync recent additions

organize_pdfs

#!/bin/bash

# This script is set to run any time a new file is added to my "Papers" folder, using launchd

# 1 - Find papers with JSTOR or Science cover sheets and remove the first page

text1="kind:pdf Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of"  #JSTOR papers
text2="kind:pdf is published weekly, except the last week in December"   #Science papers

#Add more of these as you find text snippets that identify cover sheets from different publishers.  Then add more loops belo

mdfind -0 -onlyin ~/Dropbox/Papers/ "$text1" |    # mdfind is a mac-specific search utility
while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; do
  noext="${file%\.*}"
  /opt/pdflabs/pdftk/bin/pdftk "$file" cat 2-end output "$noext".tmp  #pdftk can be downloaded at http://goo.gl/qgv0j
  mv -f "$noext".tmp "$file"
done

mdfind -0 -onlyin ~/Dropbox/Papers/ "$text2" | 
while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; do
  noext="${file%\.*}"
  /opt/pdflabs/pdftk/bin/pdftk "$file" cat 2-end output "$noext".tmp
  mv -f "$noext".tmp "$file"
done

# 2 - Find the files added or modified in the last two weeks and make hard links in the "iA Papers" folder to sync with iAnnotate PDF

rm ~/Dropbox/iA\ Papers/*.*
cd ~/Dropbox/Papers/
find . -mtime -14 -name "*.pdf" -exec ln -F {} ~/Dropbox/iA\ Papers/{} \;

I can't make it work with grep :

#!/bin/bash -xv
text1="If you wish to distribute" #Science papers

grep -l "$text1" .pdf |
while IFS="" read -r -d "" file; do
noext="${file%.}"
pdftk "$file" cat 2-end output "$noext".tmp
mv -f "$noext".tmp "$file"
done