Where can I download a full .pdf copy of the Cisco Internetworking Technology Handbook, rather than just the chapters?

Question

Cisco publish the Internetworking Technology Handbook on their website but they only provide the individual chapters in pdf. Is there a .pdf of the entire thing available?

Answer 1

Actually you can just run:

wget -r --no-parent -A "*.pdf" http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/technology/handbook/ito_doc.html

Which will grab just the PDFs.

You can use the GPL2/free basic version of pdfsam (PDF Split and Merge) or ghostscript (gs) if on Linux/command line (apt-get install ghostscript if on Ubuntu/Debian, etc. likely there's an RPM or you can compile from source as well).

Edit:

I can't believe I just did this, but what the hey: here's the entire gs cmd, copy and paste (and I better get the Answer for this):

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=Cisco.Internetworking.Technology.Handbook.pdf Intro-to-Internet.pdf Intro-to-LAN.pdf Intro-to-WAN.pdf Bridging-Basics.pdf Routing-Basics.pdf NM-Basics.pdf Ethernet.pdf FDDI.pdf Token-Ring.pdf Frame-Relay.pdf HSSI.pdf ISDN.pdf PPP.pdf SMDS.pdf Dial_up.pdf SDLC-etc.pdf X25.pdf VPN.pdf Voice_Data.pdf wireless.pdf DSL_Dig_Subscr_Ln.pdf Cable.pdf Transparent-Bridging.pdf Mixed-Media-Bridging.pdf Source-Route-Bridging.pdf LAN-Switching.pdf atm.pdf MPLS_Tag-Switching.pdf DLSw.pdf OSI-Protocols.pdf Internet-Protocols.pdf IPv6.pdf XNS.pdf AppleTalk.pdf VINES.pdf IBM-SNA-Protocols.pdf DECnet.pdf Enhanced_IGRP.pdf IBM_SNA_routing.pdf IGRP.pdf IP-Multi.pdf NLSP.pdf OSI-Routing.pdf OSPF.pdf RIP.pdf RSVP.pdf QoS.pdf SMRP.pdf Security.pdf Dir-Enabled_Net.pdf Net_caching.pdf IBM-Net-Mgmt.pdf RMON.pdf SNMP.pdf bgp.pdf Multi-Acc.pdf Tag-Switching.pdf

Answer 2

I know it might be fairly labour intensive, but you could download all the chapters and the use something like PDF Merge 1.0 to join them all together into one.

Answer 3

If you can't find it as one, easily way to get all the chapters would be something like:

wget <yourlink>
while read line; do 
   echo wget http://www.cisco.com/$line; 
done < <(grep -o '/en/US/docs/internetworking/technology/handbook/.*.html' Intro-to-Internet.html | sed 's/html/pdf/')

I use variations on the above to get lectures sometimes, if the site is complicated I might use a perl HTML parser. You will need to modify the above a little, didn't want to post the exact code to crawl a site.