Get total page count for all PDF files in the current working directory. Requires pdfinfo

pdfcount.sh

#!/bin/bash
num_pages=0;
for file in *.pdf; do
    f_pages=$(pdfinfo "$file" 2>/dev/null | grep Pages | cut -d ":" -f 2 | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//')
    if [[ -z $f_pages ]]; then
        echo "Error in $file" && exit 1;
    fi
    num_pages=$(( num_pages + $f_pages ))
done
echo $num_pages;