On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Christopher D. <lists / ruby-forum.com> wrote: > into one final directory. As a test this is the code I came up with. > > pdfs = Dir["*.pdf"].sort.join(" ") > `pdftk #{pdfs} cat output combined.pdf` > > Which results in an error: "No file or directory -pdftk ["01_cool.pdf", > "02_cool.pdf"] cat output combined.pdf Inspect the string before running it: pdfs = Dir["*.pdf"].sort.join(" ") cmd = "pdftk #{pdfs} cat output combined.pdf" puts cmd `#{cmd}` martin