task8 Write a bash script accepting three arguments: (url), (list file), and (ou

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task8 Write a bash script accepting three arguments: (url), (list file), and (output). The script has to download from (url) all the files specified (one per line) in (list.file). Assume that all the files specified in (list file) are PDF files. Then, the script has to concatenate (maintaining the order specified in (list file)) all the downloaded files to generate a single PDF file. The resulting concatenated file must be saved in output) For instance, if the script is invoked in the following way: ./script.sh http://homepage.divms.uiowa. edu/"bianch/ task8list.txt output.pdf The script should generate a file called output.pdf, equal to task8samplesolution.pdf. You can find the files task8list.txt and task8samplesolution.pdf in the tar file of this homework I suggest using the command wget to download the files and the command pdftk to concatenate them

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Please make sure you have pdftk and wget installed
Also since you haven't provided the links to the files specified here I am not able to test with those

#!/bin/bash

url=$1

filename=$2

wget --quiet -O $filename $url/$filename

finalfile=$3

wget --quiet -i $filename

file=''

while IFS= read -r var

do

file=`echo ${var##*/}`

done < "$filename"

echo $file

pdftk $file cat output $finalfile

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