Convert any document to PDF in Bash by piggy backing Google Docs Viewer
Here's the code -- pretty simple:
#!/bin/sh # by Jason A. Donenfeld # www.zx2c4.com if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 url output-pdf-file" exit 1 fi set -e documenturl="$(echo -n "$1" | xxd -plain | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/\(..\)/%\1/g')" viewerurl="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=$documenturl" pdfurl="$(printf "$(curl -s "$viewerurl" | sed -n "s/.*gpUrl:'\\([^']*\\)'.*/\\1/p" | sed 's/%/%%/g')")" cookiejar="$(mktemp)" curl -s -L -c "$cookiejar" -o "$2" "$pdfurl" rm -f "$cookiejar"