i had some troubles to open and change an already created pdf – here is how it needs to be done

# load the pdf library
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom("itextsharp.dll") 

# read the form
$reader = New-Object iTextSharp.text.pdf.pdfreader -ArgumentList "form.pdf" 

# create a new file with the read content
$writer = New-Object iTextSharp.text.pdf.pdfstamper($reader, [System.IO.File]::Create("filled-form.pdf")) 

# set content to a form field
$writer.AcroFields.SetField('key','value') 

# close the filestream
$writer.Close() 

this will work for unencrypted pdf files

#!/bin/bash
# Deletes comments from host and services no longer in critical status. Developed for Nagios 3.x
# Author: Mathias Decker, <mathias@itgweb.de>
# Date: 27/12/2011

# Global Vars
NAGIOS_CMD='/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd'
LOG='/var/nagios/status.dat'

# Remove no longer used service comments
# explanation: convert blanks -> get all comments and 3 lines up -> get rid of tabs -> make 1 line not for -> skip the other 'blocks'
for c in $(cat $LOG | sed 's/ /+blank+/g' | grep -B3 "^ comment_id=" | sed 's/	//g' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/;/g' | sed 's/--/\n/g')
do
        comment_id=$(echo $c | sed 's/;/\n/g' | grep "^comment_id" | sed 's/comment_id=//g')
        host_name=$(echo $c | sed 's/;/\n/g' | grep host_name | sed 's/host_name=//g')
        service_name=$(echo $c | sed 's/;/\n/g' | grep service_description | sed 's/service_description=//g')

        if [ ! -z $service_name ]
        then
                service_name=$(echo $service_name | sed 's/+blank+/ /g') #get back the blanks
                host_name=$(echo $host_name | sed 's/+blank+/ /g')
                state=$(cat $LOG | grep -B15 current_state | grep "$host_name$" -A14 | grep "=$service_name$" -A13 | grep "current_state=" | sed 's/	current_state=//g') # theres a tab in front of current_state
                # get all services which got state=0 which is okay
                if [ $state = 0 ]
                then
#                       echo "$host_name - $service_name - $comment_id - '$state'" # uncomment for debugging
                        NOW='date +%s'
                        echo "[$NOW] DEL_SVC_COMMENT;$comment_id;$NOW" >> $NAGIOS_CMD # this will get rid of the comment
                fi
        fi
done

#remove no longer used host comments
for c in $(cat $LOG | sed 's/ /+blank+/g' | grep -A3 "hostcomment" | sed 's/	//g' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/;/g' | sed 's/--/\n/g')
do
        comment_id=$(echo $c | sed 's/;/\n/g' | grep "^comment_id" | sed 's/comment_id=//g')
        host_name=$(echo $c | sed 's/;/\n/g' | grep host_name | sed 's/host_name=//g')
        if [ ! -z $host_name ]
        then
                host_name=$(echo $host_name | sed 's/+blank+/ /g')
                state=$(cat $LOG | grep -B15 current_state | grep "$host_name$" -A14 -B1 | grep "hoststatus" -A14 | grep "current_state=" | sed 's/	current_state=//g')
                if [ $state = 0 ]
                then
#                       echo "$host_name - $comment_id - $state"
                        NOW='date +%s'
                        echo "[$NOW] DEL_HOST_COMMENT;$comment_id;$NOW" >> $NAGIOS_CMD
                fi
        fi
done

for i in $(ls -1 *.jpg | sed 's/ /;/g'); do
   convert -resize 800x800 "$(echo $i | sed 's/;/ /g')" "/path/to/destiantion/$(echo $i | sed 's/;/ /g')"
done

The “sed ‘s/ /;/g’” is to handle filenames with a blank.

$ dd if=/dev/sda | bar -s XXXM > /path/to/destiantion

you might need to

$ sudo apt-get install bar

before

$ kill -USR1 $(prgep dd)

… and you gonna get something like

xxx bytes (xx MB) copied, xxx s, x MB/s

… and the dd progress doesnt get killed.