I have been using this to get a page count of PDFs in shell scripts in OS X:
pdftk "$i" dump_data | grep NumberOfPages | awk '{print $2}' | tr -dc '[0-9]'
(where $i
is the PDF filename)
However, there are times when that does not seem to work, so I would like to find another way to do it.
Best Answer
You should be able to use
mdls
to view the metadata attributes for a PDF:mdls -n kMDItemNumberOfPages "$i" | cut -c24-