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Merge multiple PDFs using Ghostscript
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A simple Ghostscript command to merge two PDFs in a single file is shown below:

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combine.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf

Install Ghostscript:

Type the command sudo apt-get install ghostscript to download and install the ghostscript package and all of the packages it depends on.

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Thank you! I wasted a lot of hours fighting with libraries for NodeJS to just merge PDFs and you save me! 😍 Sometimes (almost always?) simpliest solutions are the best!

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