"[...] but it doesn't have an -i or --info option that tells me how many pages a PDF file has" You could use pdfinfo - in Debian / Ubuntu, it is in the same pa

"[...] but it doesn't have an -i or --info option that tells me how many pages a PDF file has" You could use pdfinfo - in Debian / Ubuntu, it is in the same package as pdftotext (poppler-utils). To extract (only) the number of pages of a PDF: $ pdfinfo FILE.pdf | grep '^Pages' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2