# How can I merge multiple pdf files

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**Category:** Shell\
**Created:** [January 13, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://linux-tips.com/t/how-can-i-merge-multiple-pdf-files/69 "2015-01-13T11:35:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![RaskoX](https://linux-tips.com/user_avatar/linux-tips.com/raskox/32/92_2.png) [@RaskoX](https://linux-tips.com/u/RaskoX)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://linux-tips.com/t/how-can-i-merge-multiple-pdf-files/69/1 "2015-01-13T11:35:23Z")

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Is there a quick way in the shell to merge multiple pdf files into one big pdf file?

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**Author:** ![redsector](https://linux-tips.com/user_avatar/linux-tips.com/redsector/32/71_2.png) [@redsector](https://linux-tips.com/u/redsector)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://linux-tips.com/t/how-can-i-merge-multiple-pdf-files/69/2 "2015-01-13T11:45:09Z")

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It is possible with `Ghostscript` if installed.

You can use following command to merge multiple pdfs into output.pdf file:

```
 gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf 1.pdf 2.pdf

```

Indeed ghostscript have more and more capabilities on pdf files such as changing quality, compression etc. Look at [man page of gs](http://manpages.org/gs)

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**Author:** ![gopinathsoundar](https://linux-tips.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gopinathsoundar](https://linux-tips.com/u/gopinathsoundar)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:35am UTC](https://linux-tips.com/t/how-can-i-merge-multiple-pdf-files/69/3 "2015-11-25T07:35:02Z")

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In the acrobat reader click the tools menu select the files to add and combine all files and include the files into PDF.