HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

mkpdf(1M) mkpdf(1M)

The next example shows how to create a completely new PDF from just a list of ﬁles. The PDF for the ﬁles

under the /PRODUCT directory is created by executing the

find command (see ﬁnd(1)) on all the ﬁles in

the directory structure under

/PRODUCT.A/

is edited onto the beginning of each path name to make it

absolute. The path names are then piped to

mkpdf. The -r option speciﬁes that a root of /PRODUCT

should be preﬁxed to each path name while the directory is being searched. A

- in the prototype_PDF posi-

tion speciﬁes that

stdin is being used for the prototype PDF ﬁle. The resulting PDF does not contain the

/PRODUCT preﬁx. Note that, with only a list of path names, the linked_to ﬁeld of linked ﬁles will not con-

form to the convention explained in pdf(4).

cd /PRODUCT

find * -print | sed -e ’s:ˆ:/:’ |

mkpdf -r /PRODUCT - PDF

RETURN VALUE

Upon completion, mkpdf returns one of the following values:

0 Successful completion.

1 Nonoptional ﬁles in the prototype ﬁle were not found.

2 mkpdf encountered other problems.

DIAGNOSTICS

ﬁlename: no such file or directory

A nonoptional ﬁle was not found on the ﬁle system and will not appear in the new PDF.

WARNINGS

Sizes reported do not reﬂect blocks allocated to directories.

Use of PDFs is discouraged since this functionality is obsolete and is being replaced with Software Distribu-

tor (see sd(4)).

AUTHOR

mkpdf was developed by HP.