So you’ve written the thesis, you’ve been examined, the corrections are done, and now you are left with just wearing the silly clown robes to get a piece of paper with your name on it. However, you’ve been informed that you aren’t allowed to don the silly robes until you print the damn thing (again) and submit it to the Bod to be ignored for generations to come. Oh, and the added bonus is that you have to pay for it. Naturally, you want the high-quality printing and paper to match for the final versions, but it’s all so expensive. At least you can save a few meagre pounds by specifying only the pages for colour printing. Naturally, I decided that I would spend far more time making a script than just counting them myself (which I did anyway to verify it works). Enjoy.


#!/usr/bin/env Rscript

library(data.table)

args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly=TRUE)
x <- system(paste("gs -q -o - -sDEVICE=inkcov",args[1]," | awk '{print $1,$2,$3}'"),intern=TRUE)
x <- as.data.table(tstrsplit(x,' '))
x[,c("V1","V2","V3"):=.(as.numeric(V1),as.numeric(V2),as.numeric(V3))]
print(paste("Colour pages total:",sum(rowSums(x)!=0)))
print(paste("Colour pages:", paste(which(rowSums(x) != 0),collapse=', ')))