#!/bin/bash pw="password" year="2015" for i in *.PDF do #remove password qpdf --password=$pw --decrypt $i $i.nopass.pdf #convert to ps for formating pdf2ps $i.nopass.pdf #generating text output and formatting into columns output+="$(ps2txt "$i.nopass.ps"|\ grep -e "\/$year" -e 'DIRECT'|\ tr '\n' ' '|\ sed "s/** DIRECT DEPOSITS//g")|" clear echo "$output"|tr '|' '\n'|column -t rm "$i.nopass.pdf" rm "$i.nopass.ps" done